What is a wacky cake and why does it have such a, well, wacky name? Before veganism was a thing, people made vegan cakes by necessity during the Great Depression in the U.S., when ingredients like ...

Last week I was rearranging some things in my kitchen and I came across my great-grandmother Ruth’s recipe for chocolate cake, scribbled on a yellowing index card. My middle name is Ruth, in honor of ...

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 ...

I tried a chocolate-cake recipe with no eggs or dairy that dates back to the Great Depression. Known as "Depression cake," the penny-pinching recipe is useful now due to the high price of eggs. I didn ...

Doris Porter of Baltimore was looking for a recipe for "Wacky Cake." It was in a cookbook compiled in the 1950s by her daughter's fourth-grade class and, sadly, she has lost it. While she has come ...

The most preordered recipe compendium in publisher DK’s history is not your grandmother’s cookbook. “‘Baking Yesteryear’ is a greatest hits of bakery from the good down-home community cookbooks from ...