Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Wacky Cake

Wacky cake is a cocoa based cake without milk or eggs and a super spongy cake. This cake is simple to prepare and unlike most of desserts or pastries this cake goes for an easy preparation. You doesnt need any other special gadgets etc. As per wiki,it is commonly believed Wacky Cake may have been created as the result of rationing during World War II, when milk and eggs were scarce. Active ingredients in wacky cake include flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, vegetable oil, white vinegar and vanilla extract. Some recipes add brewed coffee as an additional ingredient. The cake may be topped with icing or confectioner's sugar, or even served plain.The cake is considered a popular delicacy at bake sales in numerous rural regions of the United States.

Wacky cake


Am running my third week of blogging marathon with desserts as theme, Srivalli gave us a Wikipedia link to check and pick desserts from the link. I picked three different desserts from three different categories, yea i chosed this wacky cake from cakes, and two more desserts from tarts and puddings, stay tuned to know about my two more desserts i'll be posting under this theme. Coming to this wacky cake, this cake is butter free and egg free obviously its a vegan cake, trust me a prefect size of this cake with a cup of coffee or tea makes an excellent filling snacks or breakfast.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#49.

Wacky cake

Recipe source: About Food
1+ 1/2 cups Unbleached all-purpose flour
1cup Sugar
3tbsps Unsweetened cocoa
1tsp Baking soda
1/2tsp Salt
1tspVanilla
1tsp Vinegar
5tbsps Vegetable oil
1cup Cold water

Grease and flour an 8-inch square baking pan.

Preheat the oven to 350° F.

In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa, soda and salt.Make three wells in the flour mixture.

In one put vanill, in another the vinegar, and in the third the oil.

Pour the cold water over the mixture and stir until moistened.

Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or a skewer inserted comes out clean.


Cool completely and dust with icing sugar.

Enjoy..

Wacky cake

25 comments:

Torviewtoronto said... Reply To This Comment

looks fabulous :) I tried your Vangi Bhath and it turned out delicious Thank you

Sandhya Ramakrishnan said... Reply To This Comment

Looks super delicious and super simple. I am bookmarking this to try out for sure :)

Varada's Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Very interesting cake and recipe. Nice one.

Suma Gandlur said... Reply To This Comment

This is one yummy cake though sugar was also rationed during wars.

Hamaree Rasoi said... Reply To This Comment

Whacky cake looks so delicious and is surely guilt free. Lovely pics as well.
Deepa

great-secret-of-life said... Reply To This Comment

interesting name Priya.. yummy and soft cake

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Surely looks tempting!!! not sure why it is called wacky, but it is super tempting, so much like a brownie!!!

Suja Ram said... Reply To This Comment

I have come across this'Wacky cake' in a Vegan cookbook, but haven't tried yet. Looks absolutely sinful.

Rafeeda AR said... Reply To This Comment

This is one among the bookmarked recipes in my list... looks really soft...

Srivalli said... Reply To This Comment

Priya, thank you..this seem to be just the cake I can bake for myself!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

This is for sure a very easy cake recipe with very less ingredients. A must try I Say...

Sundari Nathan said... Reply To This Comment

interesting recipe!! cake looks super soft and moist!!

Nammi said... Reply To This Comment

wow, no wonder its called wacky, without butter and eggs it still looks so nice and spongey and soft

Priya Srinivasan - I Camp in My Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Made it quite a few times when i initally started baking. Looks droolicious!

Julie said... Reply To This Comment

yummy soft one!!

Swati Sapna said... Reply To This Comment

Am back after a looong hiatus from blogging. But so good to see your posts and catch up on all the lovely food you have been cooking up! Hope you have been well!
The wacky cake is such an interesting post Priya - with a great story behind it and with a contemporary Vegan appeal too...

mullaimadavan said... Reply To This Comment

Priya, where is my share? looks very tempting!

Vineetha Sush said... Reply To This Comment

Thats a very interesting name..sounds cool...it looks very tempting too.

vaishali sabnani said... Reply To This Comment

awesome!!...simple and delicious.Looks tempting.

Sneha's Recipe said... Reply To This Comment

A tempting wacky cake.

sushma said... Reply To This Comment

Looks soo delicious. Yummyyy

Harini R said... Reply To This Comment

Looks lovely and I am sure a chocolate lover's paradise!!

cookingwithsapana said... Reply To This Comment

Wacky cake looks tempting.My kind of cake..

Pavani said... Reply To This Comment

Wacky cake came out delicious. Looks so moist & yummy!!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Can lemon juice be used in place of vinegar?