Crazy Cake Recipe

Crazy Cake
A delightfully rich and moist cake that is easy and fun to make.  Even a bachelor can do it and make a great impression on the ladies.

•  Using a 9" round glass cake dish, measure into a sifter and sift together right into the cake dish the dry ingredients:

     1 1/2  (one and one half) Cups flour
     1  C sugar
      1 tsp   baking soda
     1/2 (one half) tsp  salt (optional)
      3 Tbsp   unsweetened cocoa

• Stir together the ingredients above in the cake dish, mixing well.

• Make three well-holes in the dry ingredients with a spoon: 

1 large "well"

1 medium "well"
1 small "well"

• In the biggest of the wells put     5 Tbsp vegetable oil

• In the middle sized well, put       1 Tbsp vinegar

• In the smallest well put      1 tsp vanilla

• Pour 1 Cup cold water over all  

•  Stir all ingredients together very well using a spatula

to smash and mix in lumps and to scrape the sides and
bottom of the cake dish to make sure
all the dry gets mixed with the wet.

• Bake in a moderate oven at 325 degrees for 25 minutes.  

 (Note:
If you stick a toothpick into the cake to check for doneness it'll probably always come out with moist crumbs on it so don't use that for a test.  Just tap your finger on top of the middle of the cake and if it springs back and the cake doesn't smell burnt yet, it's done!)

• Now you can serve it as is (good warm and cold) with ice cream, or
• Let it cool and make it fancy by placing a pretty paper doily on top and then sifting powdered sugar over all.  Remove the doily and you've got a beautifully decorated cake