Wacky Cake Recipes

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 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:

• 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.

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 oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 9 x 13 inch pan, or three 8 inch round pans.
• Stir together flour, soda, cocoa, sugar, sugar substitute, and salt. Stir in vanilla, water, vinegar, and oil. Pour batter into prepared pan(s).
• Bake cake in a rectangular pan or three round pans for 35 minutes, or until done. Cool.

Steps:

• Important NOTE: The cake relies on the last-minute combination of vinegar and baking soda for leavening. The reaction between the two causes the batter to bubble vigorously, and thus, rise. The cake has to be prepared in its baking pan; otherwise it doesn't rise nearly as well. Make wells in the dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients--oil, vinegar, and vanilla--to the wells, and then add water and stir quickly (but not too much) to blend the batter just moments before you put it into the oven. Streaks of flour should remain.
• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Coat 8-inch-square baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• Whisk flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt together in pan. Using a spoon, make 1 large and 2 small craters in dry ingredients (the large carter needs to deep enough to hold the oil). Add oil to large crater and vinegar and vanilla separately to remaining small craters. Pour water into pan, using a wooden spoon or spatula, mix the batter, taking care not to overmix; the batter should still contain a few streaks of flour. Immediately put pan in oven.
• 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.)
• Great with ice cream or whipped cream or both :-).

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:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• In an 8 x 8 ungreased pan, mix all the ingredients.
• Bake 25 minutes.
• Cool.
• Store at room temperature, covered.

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:

• Sift dry ingredients into an ungreased (8x8) pan. Make 3 holes in dry ingredients.
• In first hole, put 6 Tbsp oil.
• In second hole, put 1 tsp vanilla.
• In third hole, put 1 Tbsp vinegar.
• Pour 1 cup water over all and stir until smooth.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
• Frost or sprinkle with confectioner's sugar.
• Can double recipe.