Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

I shared a recipe for vanilla crazy cake last week and mentioned that I grew up making a chocolate wacky cake that was very similar. Readers asked me for the recipe ...

The number of emails I’ve gotten with the words “you’re invited” in the subject line has dropped drastically in the last month or so. But there it appeared in my inbox. The subject line read: “You’re ...

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 ...

It’s a cake that goes by several names. You’ll hear it called “wacky cake,” “crazy cake” and “war cake,” but most people know it as “Depression cake,” named for its origins during the Great Depression ...

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 ...