very pleased with my initiative

Glad it turned out well.

You can also make a choc cake with vegetable oil too.

here's the one I use 
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=44139.msg517912#msg517912

The one I use is similar to MOS recipe but here it is.

It is a Mary Berry recipe.
10oz SR flour
3 tabs cocoa powder
1 and 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 and 1/2 tsp baking powder
7 and 1/2oz caster sugar
3 tablespoons golden syrup
8 fl oz sunflower oil
8 fl oz milk
 Sift the dry ingredients together.
Whack in the wet ones and divide between 3 straight edge 8 - 9 in sandwich tins.
Bake at 160C or 140C fan oven for about 35 mins.

Sandwich the layers with chocolate butter cream. or whipped double cream and cover with melted chocolate.

Fat less sponges are very light and a good carrier for a light syrup flavoured with  alchohol to give a little moistness. And a little double cream of course.

Quote from: Mrs Bee on December 17, 2013, 21:32

Fat less sponges are very light and a good carrier for a light syrup flavoured with  alchohol to give a little moistness. And a little double cream of course.

to make up for the less fat

But of course.

I use a fatless chocolate sponge as the basis for my son's yearly Baileys chocolate birthday cake. 

I like fat less sponges much better than ones with butter. I like the lightness that comes from beating the eggs.