OK, that’s not exactly the topic we agreed on. We were going to talk about desserts. If you must know, I’m projecting. I eat too many sweets. I like to skip the bread and rice and potatoes and all those evil empty carbs not so I can have a healthy diet, but so I can eat more dessert. There. The truth is out.
I occasionally serve a healthy dessert, but to be quite honest they just don’t go over well. I try to serve a healthy and well-rounded diet, but when the healthy invades the desserts, worlds collide and bad things happen. I don’t want to be responsible for a tear in the time-space continuum.
When it comes to desserts, we don’t serve them often but we have a few favorites that we always come back to. I asked the kids if this was because we were boring or because those particular treats were so amazing, and was relieved to hear them answer correctly. Yes, we love our Chocolate Peanut Butter No-bake cookies, toffee candy, brownies, and wacky cake. We also love chocolate chip cookie dough, homemade, with or without the chocolate chips.
Since I have already shared the first 2 recipes, today I’ll share my own personal brownie recipe and my grandma’s Depression era Wacky Cake.
Moist Fudgy Brownies from scratch
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 cup chopped walnuts, opt.
Combine eggs, butter, cocoa, sugar and vanilla. Stir until combined. Add flour, salt and walnuts and stir again.
Bake in a buttered 9×13 for 25-30 minutes at 350, just until done in the center. Serve warm.
Grandma’s Wacky Cake (also called Crazy Cake)
A rich, delicious Depression era recipe that contains no eggs, milk or butter. I think everyone’s grandma had a recipe like this.
- 3 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 6 Tbs. cocoa
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 3/4 cup oil
- 2 cups water
- 2 Tbs. vinegar
- 2 tsp. vanilla
In an ungreased 9×13 pan, combine dry ingredients. Mix with a fork until thoroughly combined. Be sure to get the corners!
Add water, vinegar and vanilla all at once. Mix thoroughly again.
Bake 35 minutes at 350 or just until cake tests done. Don’t ice it, because the soft moist top is the best part! To make it special, dust with powdered sugar.
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