Wacky Cake

(from APechaitis’s recipe box)

This moist cake gets even better when served with vanilla ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream.

Source: Cook's Country April 2007 (from RecipeThing user jerseyjenny)

Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Serves 6 people

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup natural cocoa powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon table salt
  • 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup water
  • Confectioners' sugar

Directions

  1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees. Coat 8-inch-square baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.

  2. Whisk flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt together in pan. As shown in photo 1, make 1 large and 2 small craters in dry ingredients. Add oil to large crater and vinegar and vanilla separately to remaining small craters. Pour water into pan (photo 2), and mix until just a few streaks of flour remain (photo 3). Immediately put pan in oven.

  3. 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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