During the Great Depression, ingredients like eggs and butter were expensive and scarce. Amid the shortages and economic turmoil, bakers got creative with a recipe known as "Depression cake" or "wacky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. chocolate cake sliced - Olga Mazyarkina/Getty Images During a time when basic ingredients were rationed, people got creative and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. chocolate cake served on table - Michelle Bottalico/Tasting Table What is a wacky cake and why does it have such a, well, wacky ...

Picture this: you're rummaging through your pantry in 1933, desperate to bake something sweet for your family. You've got no eggs. No milk. No butter. Yet somehow, you create a cake that's moist, rich ...

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 ...

We know, sometimes the jokes write themselves. ‘Can’t every chcolate cake be a depression cake?’ You may ask. But, really our chocolate ‘depression’ cake is from the Depression era. A centurian recipe ...