Simple Chocolate cake

My daughter wanted a cake similar to the birthday cake with animals on it. So we made a chocolate cake this time and frosted it with chocolate frosting.

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1 3/4 cups
Sugar - 2 cups
Unsweetened cocoa powder - 3/4 cup
Eggs - 2 large
Warm water - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Oil(vegetable, canola,safflower) - 1/2 cup
Vanilla - extract - 1 1/2 tsp
Baking powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Baking powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Lightly grease or butter the bottom of a 9"x 13" cake pans(or you can use two 9" pans).Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper and grease it with butter.
2. In a large bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients( sugar, all purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder).
3. In another large bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk,water, oil and vanilla extract. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix or whisk until combined.
4.  Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 27 - 35 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool completely before frosting.

Source: Joy of baking