Why is this cake called Crazy Cake?
This expression originated during the Great Depression. Given the poor economic situation, people had scarce food and very few resources to survive. Of course, every child, even an adult, wants to eat lightly, so mothers have found a way to create a cake with a little food that will meet the needs for sweet food. Women and mothers managed to replace the more expensive groceries with cheaper ones and created the recipe for Crazy Cake. Due to the time period in which this recipe is believed to have been created, in the period of the First World War, this cake was also called War Cake, and it was also called Wacky Cake.
Crazy Cake Recipe
You will not need milk, eggs or a mixer for this recipe. Perfect right? The size of the cup you need to use is your choice. Since this cake does not contain eggs, you need to follow the measures, so you will make this cake perfectly. For this recipe we will use a 250 ml cup.
Ingredients
1 +1/2 cup flour
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
5 tablespoons oil of your choice (sunflower, olive, coconut or other)
1 cup plain water or sour water
Preparation:
Put all the dry ingredients in one bowl except the baking soda. Then add the water and oil, then mix well so that there are no lumps. Put the vinegar and soda in a large glass and mix them. You will notice that a chemical reaction will be created, it will foam. Then add them to the whipped mixture. This will make the dough airy. Put the prepared mixture in a baking dish and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes. Check the dough from time to time for baking. The dough is very soft and not too soft. If you want you can add sweetener if desired. This cake is perfect as a breakfast for coffee or milk. Once the cake is baked, let it cool down nicely before cutting it, because the dough will exhale and stick if you cut it while it is still hot.
Variants of preparation:
– If you bake the dough in the largest oven pan, you can use it as a sponge cake. Just think of a movie
– You can make it like muffins, and it would be phenomenal if you put a cube of white chocolate in the middle.
– You can put half a dose in the muffin tins or the pan, bake it to get a crust, take it out, spread it with jam of your choice, pour the second half of the dough and bake it
– You can just sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve
What is the secret of this recipe?
Usually in cake recipes we use butter because it helps maintain the softness of the cake and also makes the cake tender by coating the flour with fat. In this recipe, that effect is achieved with oil, and we have a similar outcome. Eggs are also commonly used in cake recipes, with baking soda and vinegar as substitutes. The same effect is obtained, ie the cake becomes light and soft. Instead of milk, we added water to this recipe.
