Pam Flesher In Wichita

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March is Wacky!!

Don’t forget to set your clock forward an hour on Sunday, March 10th

WACKY CAKE

2 2/3 cup flour

1 ½ cup sugar

5 tablespoons cocoa

2 ¼ teaspoons soda

Pinch of salt

 

Mix all ingredients well in an ungreased 9x13 baking pan and make three holes in the dry mixture.  Pour one of the following into each hole:

2 Tablespoons vinegar

1 ½ t vanilla

1 stick melted butter

 

Pour 2 Cups of cold water over mix

Stir until well mixed

Bake at 350°for 25 min

 

ICING

1 pound powdered sugar ( 3 ½-4 cups)

2 Tablespoons cocoa

1 stick melted butter

¼ cup milk

 

Pour butter over sugar and cocoa mixture and beat with electric mixer.  Add the milk and continue to beat until smooth.  If icing is too thick, add additional milk 1 T at a time.

 

Spread on cooled cake.  Serve and Enjoy!


*Wacky cake was created during the war rations to save on eggs, milk and sugar.  Oil was often used instead of butter.  Sometimes referred to as depression cake.

 **Recipe adapted from Beth Davis, great friend and Staging/Organization expert