The Depression…

 

hahaha… okay I’m not depressed, but this cake is called “Chocolate Wacky Depression Cake” and I got the recipe from a food blog called Savory Sweet Life. It is a really awesome blog by a lady named Alice and there’s lots of good recipes that I will be making in the future.

The name of this cake came from the Depression era. Because at that time egg, milk and butter was expensive and not easy to find. So the cake is vegan- friendly!!! It is really, really easy to make. I literally put everything together in less than 10 minutes.

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{Chocolate Wacky Depression Cake}

Recipe from Savory Sweet Life

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup white sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 cup cocoa powder

6 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 tablespoon white vinegar

1 cup water

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a medium mixing bowl, mix all the dry ingredients together by hand.  Add all the wet ingredients until well combined.  Pour into a 8×8 pan which has been prepared with non stick spray.

Bake for 30 until done.  Allow to completely cool before serving. Cake is even better if eaten the next day.  Enjoy!

RESULTS: It was a good chocolate cake. It was moist and was really addicting to eat. I could have ate the whole cake if I didn’t have some self control… haha. Since the cake lacks the traditional cake ingredients such as milk, eggs, butter and vanilla extract, you can say it is a bit plain. However, if there was icing or frosting, I think this would be an awesome chocolate cake. I would make this again, because it was so easy to make. I only had to use one mixing bowl!!! It’s that fast and easy. I basically measured out all the dry ingredients and then pour all the wet ingredients in, then I mixed to combine and poured it into a pan. *** It is important to sift the cocoa because it tends to have lots of lumps ***

Oh yeah I added a tsp of vanilla extract because I didn’t want it to be too plain. I also reduced to the sugar to about to 3/4 cup of sugar but that’s because I don’t like things to sweet. =P I only baked it for 25 minutes and it was done, so remember to always check 5-10 minutes before the suggested cooking time, because your oven may be different.

So next time you want some cake but don’t have all the ingredients, except the basics, I would recommend trying to make this cake! It’s a no fail chocolate cake.

Bon Appetit,

Jenny