Vegan chocolate cake: Crazy Cake recipe

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The Crazy Cake tastes incredibly moist, chocolaty and delicious. It requires no eggs, butter or milk and contains just a few simple ingredients. What’s more, the Depression Cake is prepared in a flash. You can find a detailed vegan chocolate cake recipe with the exact quantities and step-by-step instructions below.

The history

Crazy Cake, also known as Wacky Cake and Depression Cake, is an old American recipe. It was invented in the 1930s when food was scarce and expensive in America.

A cake was created from very simple and few ingredients, without eggs, butter and milk. This is how a vegan chocolate cake was accidentally created.

The ingredients that bring out its flavor are cocoa powder, salt, vinegar and baking soda. According to the original recipe, the batter is stirred directly in the baking tin.

Incredibly moist vegan chocolate cake

This Crazy Cake has an incredibly moist consistency, similar to my vegan nut cake and my vegan lemon cake. No one is guaranteed to notice that the chocolate cake is made without eggs, milk and butter, it tastes so delicious. It can therefore more than hold its own with my delicious but non-vegan chocolate banana bread, chocolate pear cake and zucchini brownies.

Heavenly chocolatey without chocolate

The Crazy Cake tastes heavenly chocolatey. But it contains no chocolate at all, just cocoa powder.

It is important that you only use good quality unsweetened baking cocoa without additives for the recipe, just like for the chocolate pryaniki or the sugar free chocolate candy bars. This is because it determines the taste of the eggless chocolate cake.

Eggless chocolate cake with glaze

If you feel like it, you can also cover the Depression Cake with chocolate glaze. To do this, melt vegan chocolate together with a little vegetable oil or coconut oil. If the chocolate glaze doesn’t have to be vegan, you can prepare it as in the recipe for the cake “Ptichka” or for the chocolate cream cake, for example.

Alternatively, you can simply dust the vegan chocolate cake with powdered sugar and serve with fresh fruit, similar to the flourless chocolate cake.

This Crazy Cake is

• incredibly moist,
• chocolaty,
• fluffy,
• soft,
• moderately sweet,
• heavenly delicious,
• vegan – eggless, without butter or milk,
• special in its consistency and taste,
• quick and easy to make,
• ideal for an afternoon coffee or for a party.

Super quick vegan chocolate cake

The vegan chocolate cake recipe, which you can find in the recipe box at the end of this post, is really easy. Preparation is lightning fast. What’s more, you only need a few common ingredients that you probably already have at home.

Step 1:

First, mix together all the dry ingredients, namely flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla.

Step 2:

Now you add the liquid ingredients, namely vegetable oil, water and vinegar essence, and mix it into a thick chocolate batter.

Step 3:

Pour the batter into the springform tin and bake the eggless chocolate cake for around 35 minutes.

How to make Depression Cake: tips and tricks

• Only use unsweetened baking cocoa without additives for the recipe.
• You can adjust the amount of sugar to taste. With the amount of sugar specified in the recipe, the Depression Cake tastes moderately sweet.
• The batter for the Crazy Cake has a more liquid consistency than the batter for a normal pound cake, such as the vegan applesauce cake.
• Do not bake the eggless chocolate cake longer than necessary so that it tastes moist and not dry. Test with a skewer to check whether it is done baking.

Wacky Cake video recipe

You can find a short video for the Wacky Cake on my Youtube channel. There you can watch exactly how to make it at home. If you don’t want to miss any more videos from me, please subscribe to my channel.

Did you make the vegan chocolate cake using this recipe? I look forward to your result, your star rating and your comment below on how it turned out and how you liked it.

Also try these vegan chocolate cake recipes:

• Chocolate zucchini bread vegan – so moist and so chocolaty
• Chocolate cake with buckwheat flour vegan – lightning recipe
• Vegan nut chocolate jam loaf cake – quick recipe

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