Wacky Cake
This is a depression era cake. My recipe is from my grandmother. She loved this recipe because it uses a single pan. No dishes!The cake is vegan (though the frosting used here is not). Enjoy!
Prep Time7 mins
Cook Time25 mins
Total Time32 mins
Servings: 8
Cost: $7
Equipment
- Cake pan (I use a 9" round)
- Oven
Ingredients
Wacky Cake
- 1.5 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 5 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup water
- 6 tbsp oil
- 1 tbsp vinegar any kind, Ayr uses cider vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Broiled coconut frosting
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 4 tbsp heavy cream
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 cup coconut shredded coconut works best
Instructions
Wacky Cake (note – this recipe is designed to come together straight in the baking pan so that you only have to dirty 1 dish – Ayr uses a 9″ round pan)
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Sift flour, baking soda, cocoa powder together in pan.
- Add sugar and salt. Mix all these dry ingredients together until even (it’ll be one homogenous brown color from the cocoa)
- Using the back of a spoon, make 3 big wells in the dry mixture (big enough to contain the wet ingredients without overflowing)
- Pour oil and vinegar into 1 of the wells
- Pour water into the 2 other wells, add vanilla into 1 of the water wells
- Mix together (vinegar and baking soda will react together – fun for kids!)
- Put into oven, bake for 25 min
Broiled Coconut Frosting
- Mix ingredients together in a bowl
- When cake is done, take cake out and set oven to broil – wait a few minutes for broiler to heat up
- Spread frosting evenly over the cake
- Put frosted cake into the oven – with oven door open, broil until frosting has lightly browned (a few minutes – you’ll see the frosting start to bubble)