During a recent visit with my sister and her family, we were invited to share Shabbat dinner with our cousins. My sister volunteered to bring dessert. Because the meal would be kosher, with chicken ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is a wacky cake and why does it have such a, well, wacky name? Before veganism was a thing, people made vegan cakes by ...

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 ...

I shared a recipe for vanilla crazy cake last week and mentioned that I grew up making a chocolate wacky cake that was very similar. Readers asked me for the recipe ...

This cake from writer, artist and cookbook author Jessica Reed riffs on one known variously as Depression Cake, Crazy Cake and Wacky Cake. The recipes, and their histories, differ save for all ...

What is a wacky cake and why does it have such a, well, wacky name? Before veganism was a thing, people made vegan cakes by necessity during the Great Depression in the U.S., when ingredients like ...