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Wacky cake

Name: Wacky cake
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 9 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 1 cup sugar; 1/3 cup cocoa powder (unsweetened cocoa powder); 1 tsp baking soda (bicarb soda, bicarbonate of soda); 1/2 tsp salt; 1/3 cup neutral oil cooking oil (vegetable oil); 1 tbsp vinegar; 1 tsp vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract); 1 cup cold water; 80 g for the glaze dark chocolate (bittersweet chocolate); 1/4 cup for the glaze thick coconut milk

No eggs, no butter, no milk, and it is still the moistest chocolate cake on the block.

50 minTime

3 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayThe Depression era crazy cake, glazed for a party.

The original

309kcalsame

3 gproteinsame

2 gfibresame

50minutessame

The original wacky cake.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1½ cups

Sugar1 cup

Cocoa powder (unsweetened cocoa powder)⅓ cup

Baking soda (bicarb soda, bicarbonate of soda)1 tsp

Salt½ tsp

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)⅓ cup neutral oil

Vinegar1 tbsp

Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)1 tsp

Water1 cup, cold

Dark chocolate (bittersweet chocolate)80 g, for the glaze

Thick coconut milk¼ cup, for the glaze

Method

5 steps

1Heat the oven to 180°C and line or grease a 20 cm square tin.
2Whisk the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a bowl, or right in the tin as the old recipe says.
3Make three wells. Pour oil in one, vinegar in one, vanilla in the third. Pour the water over everything and mix just until smooth.
4Bake until a skewer comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool in the tin.
5For the glaze, warm the coconut milk, pour over the chopped chocolate, stir until smooth and spread over the cooled cake.

Serve it like this

Cut into squares straight from the tin, serve slightly warm with berries or a scoop of nice cream.

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Wacky cake

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