Day 4 Cake!

As I mentioned in my intro, I tend to leave baking to others. However, in the spirit of MoFo, I present my simple, basic chocolate snacking cake. Yes I had already removed  a slice before I took the picture LOL

The basis of this cake comes from depression-era baking when eggs and milk were not easily available. I think everyone must have a variation of this cake in their recipe boxes.  I have seen it called wacky cake and crazy cake. To me, it’s a genius cake because of the simple ingredients. I make this when a simple snacking cake is what I want.  I would double the recipe and make an icing if this were to be a birthday cake.

I had some fresh cherries so decided to add them to make this one a bit different. Honestly didn’t really notice them much in the final taste test, and their juiciness meant a slightly longer cooking time, but all-in-all, not a bad cake.

Genius Snacking Cake

Pre-heat oven to 350 F / 180 C

Place the following dry ingredients in a bowl and mix together with a fork

1-1/2 cups flour (I used all purpose)
1 cup granulated sugar
3 tbsp cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 t salt.

Once mixed, level off the dry ingredients in your bowl and create three holes for the wet ingredients (that’s one hole for each of these three)

1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tbsp white vinegar
1 tsp vanilla

Finally add

1 cup warm water

Mix everything together until fully incorporated.  At this point I then also added 1 cup of fresh pitted cherries as a variation.

Pour into an ungreased 8 inch cake pan and bake for 35 minutes . Check for doneness.

Let cool in pan , slice and enjoy.

#veganmofo19