Cook Like It's 1945

Browsing The Chic Geek's blog, all I saw was chocolate cake, no butter, no eggs.... And she said it was delicious! I have to try this out.

America's Test Kitchen has embarked on a ten week journey of Cooking Through The Decades where they are bringing retro recipes back to life.

This week was a visit to 1945 with a recipe for Wacky Cake, a really interesting recipe for chocolate cake that contains no butter or eggs due to the strict rationing in the 1940s (good for Vegans too!). 

It was really moist and delicious. And I especially love that it's made in the pan in which it gets baked (no extra dishes to wash!)

Wacky Cake (from America's Test Kitchen)
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

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

Whisk flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt together in pan. 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, and mix until just a few streaks of flour remain. Immediately put pan into oven.
 


 
 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.