Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, crazy cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Browse & Discover Thousands of Cooking Food & Wine Book Titles, for Less. Pour oil into one well, vinegar into second, and vanilla into third well. Crazy cake also known as Wacky Cake & Depression Cake - No Eggs, Milk, Butter, Bowls or Mixers!
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook crazy cake using 16 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Crazy Cake:
- Prepare Cake Ingredients:
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- Take 1 cup granulated sugar
- Prepare 1/3 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder
- Take 1 tsp. baking soda
- Get 1/2 tsp. salt
- Take 1 cup water
- Make ready 1/3 cup vegetable oil (or canola oil)
- Take 1 tbsp. white vinegar
- Take 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- Prepare Icing Ingredients:
- Get 1 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
- Make ready 1/4 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder
- Make ready 2 tbsp. water
- Prepare 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/8 tsp. salt
I was given this recipe by one of my best friends for my daughter with a severe egg allergy. I had no idea how much love there was for this cake. If you have a story about this cake, or grew up calling it a different name, please share. This is a very moist chocolate cake that can be served to your vegetarian friends for it has no dairy products.
Instructions to make Crazy Cake:
- Preheat your oven to 350°F. Grease an 8x8" glass baking pan and set it aside (if you have an aluminum pan, line it with parchment paper to avoid a metallic taste).
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Create a well in the center and add the water, oil, vinegar and vanilla. Stir it all together until just combined and the batter is smooth. Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Set the pan on a wire rack to cool it before frosting.
- For the icing: whisk together all the icing ingredients in a medium bowl until smooth. It should be thick and fudgy, but still spreadable. If it's too thick, add more water 1 tsp at a time until you get the right consistency. Once the cake is completely cooled, gently spread the icing over the top, then slice the cake into squares and serve.
We usually serve this cake warm, with peppermint frosting. My mom described the history of the recipe slightly differently. She's a vet from WWII and explained that the cake was named Wacky Cake in honour of the WAC (women's air corps) women who developed the recipe. Milk and eggs were scarce during the war. Crazy cakes AKA depression cakes or war cakes were commonly made during the Great Depression.
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