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wacky cake

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Recipe by
shecooks curiouscooks
@rosecuriouscooks
The Villages, FL

This recipe was personally prepared by Patrick Cicalese for the July 2015 meeting with the Curious Cuisiners. February/March 2006 Cook's Country magazine recipe

yield 6 to 8
prep time 15 Min
cook time 30 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For wacky cake

  • 1-1/2 c
    all purpose flour
  • 3/4 c
    sugar
  • 1/4 c
    natural cocoa powder
  • 3/4 tsp
    baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp
    salt
  • 5 Tbsp
    vegetable oil
  • 1 Tbsp
    distilled white vinegar
  • 1 tsp
    vanilla extract
  • 1 c
    water
  • confectioners' sugar

How To Make wacky cake

  • 1
    Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Coat 8 inch square baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
  • 2
    Whisk flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt together in pan. Make one large and 2 small craters in the dry ingredients. Add oil into the large crater and and vinegar and vanilla into remaining small craters.
  • 3
    Pour water into pan and mix just until a few streaks of flour remain. Immediately put the pan in oven.
  • 4
    Bake until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, about 30 minutes. Cool in pan, then dust with confectioners sugar. If tightly wrapped, cake will keep for 3 days at room temperature.
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