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Peice of chocolate cake on white plate with fork.

Chocolate Vinegar Cake (Wacky Cake)

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Wacky cake, or chocolate vinegar cake, is a moist, chocolatey beginner-friendly cake recipe that is perfect for the cholate lover in your life. A light cake that needs just a thin frosting. This crazy cake is egg and dairy free- also called the depression cake.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 16 people
Calories 365 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 large bowl
  • 1 9x13x2 cake pan
  • measuring utensils
  • 1 small pot

Ingredients
  

Cake

  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 1/2 cup cocoa
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2/3 cup oil canola, vegetable
  • 2 tbsp vinegar
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups cold water

Frosting

Instructions
 

Cake Instructions

  • Mix dry ingredients in a bowl. With fingers, make 3 large holes in the dry ingredients.
    this is a picture of the wacky cake in the bowl before baking with the holes.
  • Add vanilla in a hole, oil in another hole, and vinegar in the last hole.
  • Cover with 2 cups of cold water. Mix with beater until well combined.
  • Grease 9x13 cake pan. Bake at 350 F for 35 minutes or until toothpick comes out of middle clean.

Frosting

  • Add butter to pan, melt. Then add remaining ingredients. Mix well and stir continuously. Bring to boil for 45 seconds. Frost on the cooled cake.
    this is a picture of the chocolate vinegar cake in a 8x13 pan, frosted.

Notes

FREEZES WELL: Bake the cake, frost it and slice it up and pack in the freezer if you don't need an entire cake. 
Perfect kid recipe- kids love making the indents in the cake, and when you add the vinegar it fizzes a bit because of the baking soda- would be a great time to show them the vinegar + baking soda trick! 
 
Nutrition information is an estimate only.

Nutrition

Calories: 365kcalCarbohydrates: 58.5gProtein: 2.9gFat: 14gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 4.5gCholesterol: 9.6mgSodium: 27mgFiber: 1gSugar: 40.3g
Keyword birthday cake, chocolate cake, crazy cake, depression cake, moist cake
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