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 ...

I shared a recipe for vanilla crazy cake last week and mentioned that I grew up making a chocolate wacky cake that was very similar. Readers asked me for the recipe ...

Maybe as a kid you were lucky enough to get waffles and ice cream on special occasions such as your birthday, but those periods in between treats were pure agony. In case you haven’t realized it yet, ...

What is a wacky cake and why does it have such a, well, wacky name? Before veganism was a thing, people made vegan cakes by necessity during the Great Depression in the U.S., when ingredients like ...

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 ...

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 ...