- Prep Time:
5 Min - Cook Time:
25 Min
- Difficulty:
easy
- Serves:
12
Wacky Cake
Description
This is the best chocolate cake I've ever had; moist, flavorful and frugal! It's also vegan and costs less than $3 including the icing! We make this often here and the kids adore it.
add to shopping list Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup baking cocoa
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 Tablespoons vinegar
3/4 cup Oil
2 cups water
Preparation
Mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a 9x13 pan.
Make three holes in the flour mixture.
In one put vanilla; in another the vinegar, and in the third the oil.
Pour water over all and stir well.
Bake at 350 degrees F until it springs back to the touch or a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean - about 25 minutes.
Icing
1 stick margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup milk
powdered sugar
Melt margarine and add vanilla and milk. Add powdered sugar until desired consistency - loose but spreadable. This thickens as it cools.
**As a variation, I add a teaspoon of ground cinnamon to the flour mixture and add a cinnamon chocolate buttercream icing to the top.
Reviews
9/04/09
allychew says:
I make this all the time after you first posted it! It's a fantastic and quick cake recipe, I halve it and bake it in an 8" pan in my "infrared" B&D toaster oven! My son has a friend who is both a vegetarian and egg allergic, this is the perfect cake for him and he is thrilled every time I make it when he comes over! Have to admit though, I use canned icing!
9/04/09
You know, the original recipe is halved - I've been doubling all these years to fit my family! I love this silly cake. Thanks, Ally!
12/03/09
lizzclements says:
I haven't tried this recipe in particular, but I can attest to "whaky cake" being good! My mother has a recipes from the 1920s for it. It's easy to make, moist, delicious, and vegan!
12/06/09
katz66 says:
I to have made this cake since someone gave me the recipe when my kids were in first grade. It was told to me it was the depression cake. No eggs no butter and it was for an 8 by 8 pan which was great two dessert nights. It is a reliable cake to make. The recipe that I was given called for rasins. I hate rasins so never used them.
12/06/09
katz66 says:
I need to say one more thing about the Wacky cake. There is a chocolate depression cake as well as one with rasins. I have both recipes. As i said beore I don't eat rasins. This is a good cake to have your children start to make it.
1/27/10
bobbyz80 says:
I frigging LOVE this cake. Hands down my favorite chocolate cake (been making it since highschool).
