Wacky Cake has been created since the America’s Depression Era, where ingredients such as milk and eggs were scarce. This is an easy cake recipe made without eggs or dairy. Here’s the chocolate wacky cake!
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What is Chocolate Wacky Cake?
This is a popular cake in the USA. It is a spongy and fluffy cake, in chocolate flavor. It is also a super easy cake recipe to make, which uses no eggs, butter or milk. Great for kids who like to try baking a cake on their own!
This cake tastes a little like a moist brownie, just with a lighter texture.
My personal favourite supermarket cocoa powder is Vanhouten’s.
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How to Make the Wacky Cake?
You simply just combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl or tray. And then you’ll make 3 wells in the dry ingredients for adding the wet ingredients – oil, vanilla extract and white vinegar.
Before mixing the batter, pour the cup of water evenly over the ingredients, and mix them all together using a fork or whisk.
Yes! You don’t need fancy equipment, which I guess is really good in this Circuit Breaker period!
Do I Need to Frost the Cake?
The cake does taste better with frosting. Due to the little ingredients used in the cake batter, there is not much flavor to it, except for chocolatey richness – if you’d compare this cake with the usual chocolate cakes we eat.
Frosting does make this cake taste better. You can use the traditional American buttercream, German buttercream, Swiss Meringue buttercream, or even chocolate ganache! If you do not want to make the frosting, you can also dust the top of the cake with some icing sugar or snow powder and eat it together with some fresh fruits.
In this recipe, I’ve made the traditional American buttercream because it is easy. This buttercream has a nostalgic old school taste, which I don’t mind eating occasionally! Be sure to beat the buttercream well as the icing sugar may make the buttercream taste a little gritty.
Chocolate Wacky Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 188 g plain flour
- 200 g caster sugar
- 28 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp distilled white vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 80 g oil
- 240 ml water room temperature
Frosting
- 112 g unsalted butter softened
- 30 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3/4 - 2 tsp milk room temperature
- 135 - 165 g icing sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 175C. Grease and line 8" x 8" cake pan.
- Sift all dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl or tray. If you do not have a sieve, simply whisk all dry ingredients together till fairly well combined.
- Make 3 holes in the dry ingredients.
- Place vinegar, oil, vanilla extract respectively in each of the holes.
- Pour water over the ingredients and whisk well, using a whisk or fork. You should have a fairly smooth and liquid batter.
- Pour batter into prepared cake pan. Bake in preheated oven at 175C for 26-32 mins, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- Let cake cool completely on wire rack.
Frosting
- Sift and mix cocoa powder, icing sugar and pinch of salt in mixing bowl.
- Place softened butter into the bowl and beat well.
- Once mixture is smooth, add in milk and vanilla. You can adjust consistency by adding more milk (so it is softer). Add 1/2 tsp one at a time. Beat till buttercream lighten slightly in color and looks fluffier.
- Once buttercream is ready, spread onto completely cooled cake. Decorate as you wish.
Notes
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