Wacky Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Sift flour, sugar, salt, soda, and cocoa together into an 8x8 inch ungreased cake pan. Make three depressions. Pour oil into one well, vinegar into second, and vanilla into third well. Pour water over all, and stir well with fork.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 to 40 minutes, or until tooth pick inserted comes out clean. Frost with your favorite icing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 9 inch square pan.
• Sift together the flour, 1 cup of the sugar, 1/4 cup of the cocoa, the soda, and the salt. Stir in the vinegar, oil, water, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until smooth. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 to 35 minutes. Let cake cool. Then spread chocolate icing over top.
• To Make Chocolate Icing: Combine 1 cup of the sugar, 1/4 cup of the cocoa, the milk, and the butter or margarine. Boil for 1 minute. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla and continue stirring until partially cool. Spread over cake.

Steps:

• Preheat 350 degrees F.
• Place the dry ingredients in a bowl. Make 3 small holes in the mixture. Pour the vanilla in one hole, the vinegar in another and vegetable oil in another. Pour water over the top and mix. Pour into a lightly greased 8 by 8 inch pan. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.

Steps:

• Position an oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8-by-8-inch baking pan with vegetable oil.
• Sift the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt through a fine-mesh strainer directly into the prepared baking pan. Stir together with a fork (or a silicone whisk if using a nonstick baking pan). Add the oil, vinegar, vanilla and 1 cup water; stir with the fork until fully incorporated. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 35 minutes.
• Let the cake cool completely in the pan on a wire rack, about 1 hour. Frost the top of the cake with the frosting, if using. Cut into 9 squares and serve each with a dollop of whipped cream, if using.

Steps:

• Sift together and make 3 holes in dry ingredients.
• In first hole, pour vegetable oil.
• In second hole, pour vinegar.
• In third hole, pour vanilla.
• Pour cold water over all.
• Mix well with fork or whisk, but do not beat.
• Bake in greased 8 x 8 pan for about 35 minutes at 350 deg F.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a 9-by-13-inch cake pan, mix all dry ingredients. Smooth them out and make three holes. Put the vinegar in one hole, the vanilla in another and the oil in the third. Then cover the whole thing with the water. Mix it all up with a fork until the lumps are gone.
• Bake 40 or 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. When the cake is cool, frost with butter frosting (recipe below).

Steps:

• In an 8x8 inch square baking pan combine the flour, cocoa, sugar, salt and baking soda. Mix until it is completely light brown.
• When it is mixed, make 4 dents in the mixture with a spoon, 2 large dents and 2 small dents.
• Pour the water into one of the large dents.
• Pour the oil into the other large dent.
• Pour vanilla into one of the small dents.
• Pour vinegar into the other small dent.
• Stir until well moistened.
• When batter is well mixed, smooth it out and spread into place with a spatula.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Cool the cake in the pan for 30 minutes before cutting it into squares.

Steps:

• Mix flour, sugar, cocoa, soda and salt.
• Make three wells in the flour mixture.
• In one put vanilla; in another the vinegar, and in the third the oil.
• Pour 1 c cold water over all and stir.
• No need to beat.
• Pour into 8 x 8-inch pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with moist crumbs (not batter).

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Sift the flour, white sugar, baking soda, salt and 6 tablespoons of the cocoa into a 9 x 13 inch baking pan.
• Drizzle melted margarine and the vinegar over the flour mixture. Add the vanilla and cold water and stir well to remove lumps.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 minutes. Spread with chocolate frosting.
• To Make Chocolate Frosting: Combine the confectioner's sugar, 6 tablespoons water, 3 tablespoons cocoa, and 1/2 cup of the margarine. Heat until melted and stir until smooth add vanilla and nuts if desired, and spread over cake.