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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a time when basic ingredients were rationed, people got creative and found unique ways to put together whatever they had on hand to bake. For example, H2O was used to make water pie, a popular ...

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 ...

Doris Porter of Baltimore was looking for a recipe for what she called “Wacky Cake.” It was in a cookbook that was compiled in the 1950s by her daughter’s fourth-grade class and, sadly, she has lost ...