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Old-Fashioned Wacky Cake

This old-fashioned wacky cake recipe is made with flour, sugar, oil, vinegar, and cold water, topped with a sweet chocolate frosting.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings: 14 servings
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Calories: 413
Ingredients Method Nutrition

Ingredients
  

Ingredients
  • 2.25 cups cake flour
  • 1.5 cups white sugar
  • 4.5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1.5 teaspoons baking soda
  • 0.75 teaspoon salt
  • 0.5 cup vegetable oil
  • 1.5 teaspoons distilled white vinegar
  • 1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1.5 cups water
  • 0.25 cup butter
  • 0.33333298563957 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 4 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 4 tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 pinch salt

Method
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C). Grease a 13x9-inch cake pan.
  2. Mix flour, white sugar, 4 ½ tablespoons cocoa, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl. Pour dry ingredients into the prepared pan. Scoop out 3 holes in the dry mixture with a spoon: add vegetable oil, vinegar, and 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla individually in each hole. Stir in cold water over top until smooth.
  3. Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
  4. To make the frosting: Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat: add cocoa. Off heat, stir in salt, milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix in confectioners' sugar until your desired consistency. Spread over hot cake.

Nutrition

Calories: 413kcalCarbohydrates: 76gProtein: 3gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 9mgSodium: 286mgFiber: 2gSugar: 55g

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