I hope someone can help me out. I wish to give a cake/brownie mix in a jar as a gift to a very busy new mother who loves to bake homemade cakes and brownies from scratch, but has no time to weigh and measure.
Due to allergies, boxed cake mixes are not an option, there are too many additives. Plus the family has egg allergies too! Is such a thing possible? All the recipes I have found require eggs to be added.
Thank you in advance.
By cettina from Malta, Europe
Wacky Cake
I've made this for over 40 years. It's the only cake that my children wanted for their birthday! Also doubles well and makes great cupcakes.
Enjoy, Pat
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons cocoa
1/3 cup cooking oil
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup cold water
Mix dry ingredients in 9 x 9-inch pan. Make 3 holes; pour oil, vinegar and vanilla in separate holes. Pour water over all. Mix well with fork or hand mixer. Do not beat. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes. Leave in pan and frost (with chocolate fudge icing) while still warm.
Ground flax seed is a good egg replacement. I mix 1 heaping tablespoon of ground flax seen in 1/4 cup of warm water. Let it set a minute, then mix in.
Here's Jodi's eggless cake from ThriftyFun. Liquids would still have to be measured though. GG Vi
Chocolate Depression Cake
Ingredients:
· 3 cups flour
· 2 cups sugar
· pinch salt
· 2 tsp. baking soda
· 10 level Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa
· 2 tsp. vanilla
· 3/4 cup salad oil
· 2 Tbsp. vinegar
· 2 cups cold water
Directions:
Sift dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Add remaining ingredients and mix with a large spoon until smooth. Spoon into a greased and floured 13x9x2 inch baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes. Frost with your favorite frosting.
Start filling the jar with the ingredients in order starting with the coconut. Lastly, add mixed flour a little at a time, pressing in tightly after each addition. Use jar lid to push the last of the flour down into the jar.
Mix flour with baking powder and salt. Start filling jar with sugar at the bottom. Add cocoa powder, cleaning the inside of jar with a paper towel after this layer.
In layers, add sugar and cocoa powder. Clean inside of jar with a paper towel after this layer. Then add flaked coconut, sprinkled with almond extract, toss to blend, then add almonds.
