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Wacky Cake

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40 min

Wacky Cake

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Category

Cake Recipes

Time

40 min

Serving

10 persons

Calories

225

Rating

4.00★ (297)

Cuisine

Author: Victoria Buriak
This wacky cake is made without milk or eggs and is moist, dark, and delicious. A brainchild of the Depression era when ingenious cooks developed a cake that could be made without expensive and scarce ingredients. Frost with your favorite icing.

Ingredients

  • ½ cups all-purpose flour: 1 piece
  • white sugar: 1 cup
  • unsweetened cocoa powder: 4 Tbsp
  • baking soda: 1 tsp
  • salt: 0.5 tsp
  • vegetable oil: 6 Tbsp
  • cider vinegar: 1 Tbsp
  • vanilla extract: 1 tsp
  • water: 1 cup

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Stages of cooking

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  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
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  2. Sift together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt into an 8x8-inch ungreased cake pan. Make 3 depressions in the flour mixture. Pour oil into one well, vinegar into second, and vanilla into third well. Pour water over all, then stir with a fork until well blended.
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  3. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes.
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