Wacky Cake
Recipe for 8”x8” pan – Double for 9”x12” pan (Doubled amts in parentheses)
1 ½ cups flour -sifted if possible- (3 c. flour)
½ t salt (1 tsp. salt)
1 t baking soda (2 tsp. baking soda)
3 T cocoa (¼ c. + 1/8 c. cocoa)
1 cup sugar (2 c. sugar)
1 t vanilla (2 tsp. vanilla)
5 T veg oil (½ c. + 1/8 c. oil)
1 T vinegar (2 T vinegar)
Sift together dry ingredients. Make 3 holes/wells in dry ingredients, put in wet ingredients into holes/wells. Pour 1cup (2 c. for double recipe) water over whole thing. Mix well (DON’T OVERMIX – Consistency is touchy). Bake 25-30 minutes at 350° until toothpick or knife in center of pan comes out clean.
Fluffy White Frosting
2 egg whites (NO YOLK AT ALL!!) *
¼ t cream of tartar
1 cup sugar
3 T water
4 T corn syrup
Dash salt
1 t vanilla
Combine egg whites, salt, cream of tartar in mixing bowl. Beat until stiff. Put other ingredients in sauce pan and bring to a boil. Boil ~ 1 minute. Slowly add syrup to egg whites while beating. Beat until desired consistency.
* any yolk in the whites you beat will cause them to “not” stiffen up
