Wacky cake - aka Vegan chocolate, walnut coffee cake

Imagine you're at war. Supplies are limited. No eggs, no milk, no butter. Life is limited to rations, flour, some sugar and oil. What would you do? This World War II recipe shows us in the most dire of situations, you have hope and can make something delicious. Something wow-worthy. Something spectacular. Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the Wacky cake.

Wacky Cake

Wacky Cake - Vegan and delicious

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 3/4 sugar
• 1/3 cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup cold water
• 5 tbsp oil (try something with neutral flavour - vegetable or sunflower)
• 1 tbsp lemon juice (no pulp, only juice)
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• Optional
• 2 tbsp walnuts
• 1 tbsp cacao nibs
• 1 tsp coffee.

Method

• Put all the ingredients together in a bowl. whisk till you get even consistency
• pour in a well oiled baking tray
• Bake at 180 degrees centigrade for 30-35 mins. Toothpick inserted in center should come out with a few moist crumbs.
• Cool, serve, relish.

Notes

• I added 1 tsp of coffee to the water and poured it in. It helped enhance the chocolate. Optional but highly recommended
• I added walnuts and cacao nibs on top but thinking of adding it into the dough next time
• I added banana as a replacement to the water. A bad idea. keep the liquid and enjoy the fluffy cake. Banana makes it dense. TLDR, stick to the recipe.