If you've never heard of wacky cake before, you're in for a treat. Not only is this chocolate cake rich, flavor-packed, and incredibly moist, it's also one of the easiest chocolate dessert recipes you ...

"Wacky cake is made without milk or eggs and is a moist, dark, and delicious chocolate cake," says Allrecipes member Mary ...

Wacky Cake, also known as Depression Cake, was popularized during World War II when rationing certain ingredients was essential to support the war effort. The groundbreaking recipe, which doesn’t call ...

BARSTOW • Ask any graduate of Barstow Unified School District to describe a school lunch they had as a kid, and you may hear the following: Chili beans, cornbread, Wacky Cake. Chili beans and ...

Many boomers will be able to relate to Joan Bentti’s childhood recollections. “My late mother, Marion Schwabe, was so good at cooking and baking,” wrote Bentti, who lives in Greenfield. “She came from ...

Doris Porter of Baltimore was looking for a recipe for what she called “Wacky Cake.” It was in a cookbook that was compiled in the 1950s by her daughter’s fourth-grade class and, sadly, she has lost ...

Some of the most delicious recipes were invented out of necessity. When faced with a lack of certain ingredients, creative bakers scraped together whatever was in their larder so they could still put ...

Here’s a shameless promotion link to my story this morning about Cockeyed Cake, also known as Wacky Cake. I used to make it as a kid — and had forgotten about until recently. If you don’t already know ...