Wilton Wacky Cake

Wilton Wacky Cake is a great chocolate cake recipe submitted by a listener of the WMT radio program "The Open Line." Wilton, Iowa is a small farming community not far from Davenport and well known in the area for their Wilton Candy Kitchen, the oldest ongoing ice cream parlor in the world. These folks know their sweets!

The pure simplicity makes this cake my kind of baking. No mixer, bowls, or fancy ingredients are needed, total investment of time is less than an hour.

Wilton Wacky Cake

1 1/2 cup flour
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon vinegar
6 tablespoons melted shortening
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup cold water

Sift dry ingredients into oblong baking dish. Make three wells. Put vinegar in one, vanilla in one, and shortening in the other. Cover with cold water and stir to mix with a fork. Bake at 350 for 24 minutes.