And I brought you a piece of American Crazy Cake or american crazy pie. They say that his recipe appeared in the 30s - during the Great Depression, when food was in short supply, there was not much to cook from. As you know, sweet and tasty most of all you want when it is not there. Or when you can't. So American housewives figured out how to make an awesome dessert out of almost nothing. Crazy delicious! In fact, you really need everything-nothing - no butter, no eggs, no milk in the dough. The main difficulty is that the cake turns out to be very crumbly, crumbly. It's delicious, but somewhat problematic when transferring the cake to the dish, and then from the dish to the plate. Otherwise, it couldn't be easier: one bowl, everything is mixed without a mixer, one or two, and you're done! Unreal and crazy pie ready. In general, of course, it is hard to believe that in the absence of butter and eggs in the dough - the basic elements of baking - something edible can turn out. You don't believe! Just take it and do it. And be surprised.

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In general, there are many recipes for American crazy pie - English-language blogs are full of stories about how one grandmother left the recipe to her granddaughter as a legacy ... how the recipe for family baking is passed down from generation to generation ... how guests came running to someone's aunt's crazy pie from all over the street ... In general, they all have the same essence, only the proportions vary. I present to you my version.

Dough Ingredients:

1.5 cups flour (glass - 220 ml);

1 cup of sugar;

2/3 cup cold water;

1 tsp soda;

1 st. l. table 9% vinegar;

0.5 tsp salt;

0.5 cups of refined vegetable oil;

3 art. l. cocoa.

Fondant Ingredients:

3 art. l. Sahara;

3 art. l. cocoa;

1 st. l. starch;

1/3 cup of water.

Mix all dry ingredients for the dough.

Add oil, vinegar, water.

Mix well, pour the dough into a greased form, bake at a temperature of 170 degrees for about 50 minutes, check the readiness with a wooden stick.

Crazy Cake is an American pie, translated as "Crazy Cake (Pie)". It was invented in the USA during the period of shortage. This cake has an extraordinary taste, despite its simple composition. There is no oil in it, but the dish is not inferior in taste to cakes that have this ingredient in their composition.

To prepare a crazy pie "Crazy Cake" we need:
2 glasses of milk;
2 cups of flour;.
1.5 cups of sugar;
6 art. l. cocoa;.

4 tsp baking powder.
For cream:
2 glasses of milk;
1 cup of sugar;.
3 art. l. flour;
1 egg.

Mix all the dry ingredients that make up the biscuit: flour, sugar, cocoa and baking powder.

Pour the dry ingredients with warm milk and mix lightly, it is not necessary to beat for a long time.

Pour the dough into a baking dish, bake for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

To prepare the cream, boil the milk in a separate saucepan. In a bowl, beat the egg with sugar and flour, pour hot milk into the resulting mass and send to the fire. With constant stirring, bring the cream to a boil and the desired consistency.

Divide the prepared chocolate biscuit into 2 or 3 cakes, grease them with warm cream. Delicious crazy cake "Crazy Cake" decorate as you wish. Bon Appetit!

Karinochka, thank you for sharing this recipe with us!

I didn’t take step-by-step photos (I’m still sick). But everything is simple here: mix dry products, add the rest, mix with a spoon and pour into a mold.

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She has an interesting fill there. I wanted to, but then I changed my mind...
Baked in a 20 cm mold for about an hour (until a dry match)

Crazy cake (crazy cake)- this is a chic and sooooo chocolate cake, which owes its appearance to the American depression of the thirties, when they tried to save on everything ... but they still wanted something delicious ... In addition, the recipe is extremely simple!

For making a crazy cake we will need:
3 cups flour;
2 cups of sugar;
1 teaspoon of salt; (I made it without salt)
2 teaspoons of soda;
half a glass of cocoa powder;
1 glass of vegetable oil;
2 tablespoons of vinegar;
a sachet of vanillin;
1.5 cups of cold water.
Crazy cake recipe:
Pour all dry ingredients into a bowl. Add vinegar, water and vegetable oil to the mixture. Stir until smooth, put in a greased form and put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about half an hour.
Cool the finished cake, put on a dish. It can be served like this, you can layer it with your favorite cream, or you can just pour something over it. I have a third option ... I filled the cake with chocolate jelly ... it's done like this: pour water and milk in half into a saucepan (a total of 1.5 cups), add sugar to taste, add 3 tablespoons of cocoa and stir. Dilute 2 tablespoons of starch in a small amount of water, pour the mixture into jelly, stir, let it boil, cool. This can also fill the cake. Bon Appetit!

I have here in the photo he is still hot. The cooled biscuit has a slightly different structure ...

Well, there is another photo...

Do you like chocolate and chocolate pastries, but don't dare to cook something delicious at home using cocoa powder? We can give you a recipe for a crazy Crazy Cake, which was once invented in America by an ordinary housewife. She wanted to please her family with delicious pastries and created them from what was at hand. This pie is also called anti-crisis, budget.

And despite the fact that neither butter nor eggs were used in the cake, it turned out like an expensive chocolate biscuit, moist and very delicate in taste.

Intrigued? Then let's cook together! Check out the required set of products.

We offer you two recipes for this pie. In the first recipe, sour cream will be added, the second recipe is absolutely lean, but no less tasty from this.

The pie can be cut and made into a cake. You can use or a simple sour cream.

Ingredients

• Wheat flour of the highest grade - 210 g;
• Sugar sand - 220 g;
• Vanilla sugar - 2 tsp;
• Cocoa powder - 70 g;
• Baking powder for dough - 1 tsp;
• Baking soda - 0.5 tsp;
• Salt kitchen - 1/4 tsp;
• Vegetable oil - 120 g;
• Sour cream 15% - 200 g;
• Drinking water (purified) - 150 ml.
• For glaze:
• Sugar sand - 100 gr;
• Cocoa powder - 20 gr;
• Butter - 50 gr;
• Milk - 30 ml;
• Vanilla sugar - 0.5 tsp

For baking, you need a detachable form with a diameter of 24 cm or 26 cm; baking paper, two bowls for mixing ingredients.

How to make Crazy Cake

What is the main thing in the Crazy Pie recipe? The answer is simple, of course, high-quality cocoa powder. It is he who will provide the very unique rich chocolate taste. Therefore, we advise you to take only a proven brand of cocoa.

And so, we have all the necessary ingredients prepared and you can directly proceed to action. And we will start by turning on the oven, setting the temperature to 180 degrees.

Are you wondering why we immediately start with the oven? And all because we will literally knead the dough for 5-7 minutes. Yes, here it is Crazy Pie - two times and it's ready!

We're starting, let's go! Pour the sifted flour into a sufficiently voluminous bowl, add salt, soda, baking powder, granulated sugar and cocoa powder.

Now we need to mix all this thoroughly and get a homogeneous dry mixture.

Pour sour cream, water and vegetable oil into the second prepared bowl, that is, all liquid ingredients.

Using a regular fork or spoon, mix and get a homogeneous liquid mass.

Now that the two types of ingredients (dry and liquid) are prepared, pour the liquid into the bowl with the dry and immediately begin to mix them (preferably in a circle).

Mix until a homogeneous dough without lumps is obtained, the consistency of which is reminiscent of thick sour cream.

Pour the finished dough into the form and put in the oven approximately in the center.

According to the recipe, the Crazy Pie of the indicated diameter (24 or 26cm) will be baked for 40-45 minutes.

In order for the cake to have a more presentable appearance, it is better to cover it with chocolate icing. She is easy to prepare. Mix cocoa with sugar, add milk and butter.

Boil over low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Transfer the baked cake to a plate.

Top with slightly cooled frosting.

As you can see, the crazy pie recipe that we shared is quite simple. Cut and serve to the table. Enjoy!

Lenten "Crazy Pie"

This mega-chocolate, nutritious and delicious cake will appeal to all chocolate lovers. Delicate, airy, moderately moist cake can be served with mochachino, latte, fermented tea, butter or custard.

The biggest "plus" of Crazy Cake is the minimum composition of products. No one will ever believe you that a cup of butter, water, cocoa powder and flour can make such an incredibly appetizing and festive dessert. This basic recipe can be used as you please. It's easy to create small muffins, a cupcake or a colorful cake with the super chocolate dough base. If you are not fasting, then use heavy cream, mascarpone with strawberries, patisserie cream or thick curd mass as a filler for chocolate treats. With each of these fillers, the cake will turn out even more tasty and refined. Covering the top of the pastry with sweet powder, confectionery “sprinkling” or icing, you will get an incredibly delicate, chocolate, airy cake that will not leave your family or guests indifferent.

The photo shows a Crazy Cake made from 1/2 of the recommended products. If you want to impress a large company with the taste of "crazy" chocolate cake, use the full composition of the products recommended below.

Ingredients:

• flour (3 tbsp.);
• 6 art. l. cocoa;
• 2 tsp soda;
• 3/4 cup oil;
• 5 st. l. apple cider vinegar;
• 2 tbsp. water;
• 5 st. granulated sugar.

For glaze:

• 3 tbsp cocoa;
• 4 tbsp Sahara;
• 70 ml of water.

Cooking:

Pour flour, sugar, soda and quality cocoa into a suitable bowl. In no case do we reduce the rate of the last product, since the quality and taste of the finished dessert depends on it.

We combine all products. The amount of sugar is adjustable depending on your taste preferences.

Pour apple cider vinegar, it will extinguish the soda.

We introduce neutral vegetable oil, it should be refined and odorless.

With light movements, grind the products with a large spoon or whisk and pour water.

We combine the ingredients for a "crazy" pie. The dough is smooth and homogeneous, the consistency is like sour cream 30% fat.

Pour the thick brown mixture into a suitable mold. It is most convenient to use the form of 20 centimeter. In the form we lay out parchment greased with a small amount of oil (in our lean case, vegetable.

We send it to the oven (180 degrees) for 30-35 minutes. We check the readiness of the dessert with a torch. Here we have such an appetizing Crazy Cake.

Let's prepare the glaze, in our case it is also lean. To do this, mix cocoa, water and sugar, stirring thoroughly, bring it to a boil, turn it off and after 5 minutes pour our crazy chocolate cake.

Cut into pieces and serve with tea.

Crazy cake Crazy cake - recipe with photo:

Since the dough for a lean chocolate pie is prepared very simply and quickly: you don’t need to beat anything or knead anything for a long time, first of all we turn on the oven to warm up, set the temperature to 170-180 C. And also prepare the form (we take the diameter of the form 18-20 cm): we line its bottom with paper, but the sides can be left as is, the cake easily moves away from them, but, if desired, they can also be covered with a strip of baking paper or greased with butter.

And now let's get down to the process itself. First, sift the flour, cocoa and soda.

Next, add vanilla and regular sugar, as well as, if desired, a small pinch of salt. Stir all dry ingredients with a whisk to get a homogeneous mixture.

Pour vinegar, oil and water into a mixture of dry ingredients.

Stir until a homogeneous dough without lumps is obtained.

Immediately pour it into a mold and send it to a hot oven.

Bake the Crazy cake for 30-40 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean and dry from the center. We let him cool down. To do this, without removing it from the mold, move the cake to the wire rack, and after cooling, we release it from the sides and bottom of the mold.

Before serving, cover the cake with icing (for a lean version, melt chocolate with vegetable oil, and in all other cases, you can make chocolate ganache or just melt chocolate with a piece of butter) or sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Crazy cake or Crazy cake is ready! As you can see, the recipe is very simple.

Cut into portions and serve!