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Wacky Cake

x Hedge — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:15:12 GMT

This is a quick and easy chocolate cake that was very popular about 50 years ago. It's an ideal choice for teaching kids to use measuring utensils for wet and dry ingredients. The cake is very forgiving if there's a little "oops!" spillage.

1&1/2 c. flour

1 c. sugar

3T cocoa

1/2 t. salt

1 t. baking soda

Sift above dry ingredients together into an 8x8" or 9x9" ungreased pan.

Level ingredients, and make 3 holes with a spoon.

1st hole put in 1T. white vinegar

2nd hole put in 6T. salad oil

3rd hole put in 1t. vanilla

pour 1c. cold water over all, and mix well with fork.

Bake 350°F about 35 minutes/toothpick comes out clean.

💠 Years ago I cut this recipe in half for a quick bedtime snack, used

6x8" pan, 325° or 350°, 20 or 25min.

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QVCkitty1 — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:19:12 GMT

@x Hedge wrote:
This is a quick and easy chocolate cake that was very popular about 50 years ago. It's an ideal choice for teaching kids to use measuring utensils for wet and dry ingredients. The cake is very forgiving if there's a little "oops!" spillage.

1&1/2 c. flour
1 c. sugar
3T cocoa
1/2 t. salt
1 t. baking soda
Sift above dry ingredients together into an 8x8" or 9x9" ungreased pan.
Level ingredients, and make 3 holes with a spoon.

1st hole put in 1T. white vinegar
2nd hole put in 6T. salad oil
3rd hole put in 1t. vanilla

pour 1c. cold water over all, and mix well with fork.
Bake 350°F about 35 minutes/toothpick comes out clean.

💠 Years ago I cut this recipe in half for a quick bedtime snack, used
6x8" pan, 325° or 350°, 20 or 25min.

I love this cake, my grandma used to make it and it is moist and delicious. Darn it , now I want a piece. LOL

Re: Wacky Cake

sfnative — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:34:42 GMT

@x Hedge

Thanks so much for sharing this recipe. I recall when this recipe came out in the late 50s, at least it was new to my mother at that time. She never ever baked, unless it was Tollhouse cookies, but she did make this a lot for about 2 years.

Will plan on making it with my granddaughter. She'll be over tomorrow, so maybe we can make it then. I know she'll love the name and chocolate is her one and only food group. LOL!

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x Hedge — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:42:06 GMT

@QVCkitty1

Here's the half measurements.

Just whip one up for yourself!

3/4 c. four

1/2 c. sugar

1&1/2 T. cocoa

1/4 t. salt

1/2 t. baking soda

➖ ➖ ➖

1/2 T. white vinegar

3 T. oil

1/2 t. vanilla

➖

1/2 c. cold water

➖ ➖

Roughly 6x8"pan

325° or 350° for 20 to 25 min.

Re: Wacky Cake

sfnative — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:42:58 GMT

@x Hedge

I've got your recipe saved, but need your help with one thing, as I cannot recall exactly how it's done.

When it says, "..make 3 holes with a spoon...," exactly how is this done and with what size spoon? I just can't remember.

Thanks so much!

Re: Wacky Cake

QVCkitty1 — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:52:20 GMT

@x Hedge wrote:
@QVCkitty1
Here's the half measurements.
Just whip one up for yourself!

3/4 c. four
1/2 c. sugar
1&1/2 T. cocoa
1/4 t. salt
1/2 t. baking soda

➖ ➖ ➖

1/2 T. white vinegar
3 T. oil
1/2 t. vanilla

➖

1/2 c. cold water

➖ ➖
Roughly 6x8"pan
325° or 350° for 20 to 25 min.

@x Hedge , thanks so much !!

Re: Wacky Cake

4kitties — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:52:30 GMT

Love this cake! We called it Easy Chocolate Cake. My mom got the recipe from her good friend, JoAnne.

If it were not so darn hot I would bake it now.

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sfnative — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:56:28 GMT

@4kitties wrote:
Love this cake! We called it Easy Chocolate Cake. My mom got the recipe from her good friend, JoAnne.

If it were not so darn hot I would bake it now.

@4kitties

I know what you mean, as it's 93 here. Will be same tomorrow, but will jack up the a/c, so granddaughter and I can make this tomorrow.

Re: Wacky Cake

x Hedge — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:57:15 GMT

@sfnative

You need 3 depressions or wells for the 3 wet ingredients. Use the back or tip of a spoon. (Honestly, you could use a bare finger.)

I always make the 3 holes as a triangle pattern, all the way down to the pan. Part of the fun is the 6 tablespoons of oil overflowing its hole and spreading all over the surface.

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sfnative — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:59:19 GMT

@x Hedge wrote:
@sfnative
You need 3 depressions or wells for the 3 wet ingredients. Use the back or tip of a spoon. (Honestly, you could use a bare finger.)

I always make the 3 holes as a triangle pattern, all the way down to the pan. Part of the fun is the 6 tablespoons of oil overflowing its hole and spreading all over the surface.

@x Hedge

Perfect! Thanks so much!

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4kitties — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 22:03:21 GMT

@sfnative Oh how fun to bake with your grand! This recipe is perfect for that.

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corita — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 22:08:27 GMT

Many years ago - like 40 years - several of my mother's friends hosted a wedding shower for me. Everyone was to bring a family favorite recipe!! One of the recipes was for this cake. I baked it quite often throughout the years!! Good, chocolatey, moist cake.....

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Havarti — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 01:07:16 GMT

I remember this cake from years ago and it was fun, easy & good. We called it Crazy Cake or The Three Hole cake, but it was basically the same. After eveything was in the pan, we would pound it on the counter to make sure there were no bubbles that would bake holes in the cake. The holes were strictly for the 3 spots to add the oil, vanilla & vinegar. Thanks for the good memory!

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RespectLife — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 18:13:06 GMT

@x Hedge

How very interesting! I have never heard of this cake recipe before! Thanks for sharing!

Just wondering what the point of the 3 holes is? It all gets mixed up w/ a fork at the end anyhow....Is there a reason you just don't mix all the ingredients in a bowl and then transfer to a baking dish?

Just curious! Is it to save a dirty mixing bowl?

Re: Wacky Cake

x Hedge — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:34:22 GMT

@RespectLife wrote:
@x Hedge

How very interesting! I have never heard of this cake recipe before! Thanks for sharing!

Just wondering what the point of the 3 holes is? It all gets mixed up w/ a fork at the end anyhow....Is there a reason you just don't mix all the ingredients in a bowl and then transfer to a baking dish?

Just curious! Is it to save a dirty mixing bowl?

Well, the dry ingredients are sifted together before any liquid is added.

But other than that, the difference is your method is missing all the fun!

The recipe could call for a quarter cup +2Tablespoons of oil...but it's far more fun to painstakingly measure out 6 consecutive Tablespoons of oil, especially if you're a kid. Then you pour water all over it!

What a mess!

How often is it ok to have the fun of making a mess?

Ya got me, @RespectLife

That's my best answer as to "why".

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sfnative — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 01:45:06 GMT

@x Hedge

Hi Hedge,

Well, my attempt to bake a Whaky Cake with my granddaughter on Monday failed miserably.

She arrived at 11:30 and had lunch soon thereafter. Swimming was next in our pool and she was at it for about 2 hours. After about 20 minutes in the pool, I sort of yelled to her, "Leela, your little piece of black physio tape has fallen off and is floating in the pool. Can you please pick it up and place it on the concrete edge for Oma?" So my husband hears this, as he's in the pool, too, and turns around to look at this physio tape. Uh oh, it wasn't black tape, it was the remote control to the garage door he had shoved in his pocket, which is how we typically get into and out of the house, instead of trapsing in wet bodies through the family room and dining room. Because the weather had been hot, every single window was shut and locked up tight, as was the front door. Somehow I got blamed for not bringing my house keys with me. Go figure. So, my husband, who likes only clam shell phones, is walking back and forth in that "What will we do, what will we do" attitude, cursing all the time. In the meantime, took me 30 seconds to get a locksmith on my iPhone. I said, "Jim, come over here and speak to the locksmith. They can be here in 30 minutes."

Ha - Men!!! There's a lot to be said for smart phones!!!

We WILL get around to the Whacky Cake!

~Rebecca

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SusieQvc — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 02:32:10 GMT

My grandmother taught me to make this cake in the 50's. She said that the recipe was popular during WWII. You'll notice that it doesn't have any eggs in it and thus it was popular during the war because eggs were a scarce commodity during the war.

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AuntG — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:45:30 GMT

Every 4-H leader here in Wisconsin taught her girls to make this cake. I should know because it's one of the few things my sister could make. I was much more adventurous, trying things like chiffon cakes and Boston cream pie out of the 1950's Betty Crocker Cookbook.

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house_cat — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:27:02 GMT

Thank you for posting.

I'd never heard of this.

Click here for a YouTube video that demos it.

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house_cat — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:30:38 GMT

@sfnative

I'm sorry, but I got a chuckle from your story. I can see it happening here. For some reason, whenever he loses ANYTHING, it's somehow my fault. I've never quite figured that one out.