Wacky Chocolate Cake (Vegan)

Wacky Cake, or Crazy Cake or The Cake Pan Cake is one of the easiest cake to bake with minimal ingredients. The crumb is soft and the cake is delicious. Serve it plain with the tea or dress it up with ganache and serve as a dessert.

Following the Father’s Day celebration from the previous post, this is the cake my daughter chose to bake for father’s day. It is a simple and easy eggless cake with the ingredients generally there in the pantry. It is called Wacky or Crazy cake because it is a “mix in the pan” type of cake. Ingredients can be mixed together in the cake pan and baked. However, I have made it the conventional way and frosted it with ganache.

Serve it plainly frosted with ganache or serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, either way, it tastes great!

I have baked this cake several times. On birthdays, on anniversaries or even when a quick dessert has to be whipped up, this cake comes as a saviour. No elaborate ingredients and no elaborate procedure.  Simple foolproof recipe.

Serve with warm custard on cold days and with ice cream on hot days. It is a big hit.

Wacky Chocolate Cake

Adapted from here

Ingredients

Cake

• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1/4  cup cocoa powder
• 1/3 cup oil
• 1 cup warm water
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Ganache

• 100gms dark chocolate
• 4 tablespoons low fat cream

Instructions

Cake

1. Preheat oven at 180 degrees C. Grease and line an 8 inch round cake tin.
2. Stir together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
3. In another bowl, mix oil, water, vanilla essence and vinegar.
4. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients until well blended.
5. Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
6. Remove from the oven, keep in the wire rack to cool.

Ganache

Heat the chocolate and cream in a very heavy bottom pan on low flame. Stir constantly till the chocolate melts. Take off the heat and stir briskly until it becomes smooth and shiny. It will thicken as it cools.

Pour Ganache evenly on the cake.