Our Depression-era wacky cake is moist, fluffy, and chocolately, with a tender crumb, it just happens to be vegan, and it ...

Wacky Cake, also known as Depression Cake, was popularized during World War II when rationing certain ingredients was ...

Check your cupboards right now—you probably have everything needed to make this cake. Flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda ...

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 ...

Picture this: you're rummaging through your pantry in 1933, desperate to bake something sweet for your family. You've got no ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grandpa and Grandma Potempa arrived from Poland, married and moved their family to our Indiana farm during the uncertainty of the late 1920s. My father Chester, the youngest of my grandparents’ nine ...

Even though sugar, butter and eggs were rationed during World War II, some families may have lifted their spirits by baking Depression Cake.Buster Dean/Chronicle Nancy White wrote in search of a ...

People handing out food during the Great Depression. Many of the meals made by American families during the Great Depression initially gained popularity because they were affordable and filling — ...