Chocolate "Crazy" Cake

A moment of celebration is needed. I've hit 3K page views :) It's only taken me 3.5 years to do so, but hey, such is life. I still haven't met the requirements to complete my original challenge, though: 100 recipes, with at least 25 each of dairy, meat, and pareve--I'm only at 23 meat recipes, even though I have 125+ recipes on the site right now. Clearly, that needs to be an area of focus for me. This is mostly because it's a whole lot easier to convert a recipe that contains both meat and dairy to a vegetarian recipe than it is to eliminate the dairy.

Enough of my rambling--on to your regularly scheduled post.



So the other night, I was asked to bring dessert to a friend's house in exchange for dinner and good company (or something like that). I was originally going to make cookies, because they're simple and why not, but then realized that I didn't have enough butter on hand. So I went through my pinterest board to see if there was something I could make without butter, or milk. I found this recipe I pinned forever ago, and figured why not. I already had all the ingredients on hand. I'm also fairly certain I've made this before, but I couldn't find record of it, so whatever. The blog below also has recipes for a vanilla, spice, and lemon crazy cake as well if you're interested in something besides chocolate. Apparently it works great with gluten-free flour as well.

Chocolate Crazy Cake
Originally found at Sweet Little Bluebird

1 1/2 cups flour
3 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup white sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp white vinegar
1 tsp vanilla
5 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 cup water

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. You can mix the ingredients directly in an 8" square baking pan, or you can do it in a bowl first. Mix the dry ingredients together until well blended. Make 3 depressions in the dry ingredients--two small, and one larger. Pour vinegar in one depression, vanilla in another, and vegetable oil in the largest. Pour water over all. Mix well until smooth. Pour into prepared pan if mixing in a bowel.

Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Top with a dusting of powdered sugar, or your favorite icing.

My Notes:
Very yummy. Super moist, but still light and airy. This may become my go-to cake recipe, especially since it's so incredibly easy to make. And it's pareve!