Crazy Cake is a very simple chocolate cake. Chocolate crazy cake "Crazy Cake"

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.

I'm not as crazy as everyone thinks, I'm much worse!
Ozzy Osbourne

In general, there are many recipes for the 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.

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.

Recipe took
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 in 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...

Surely all caring hostesses want to please their household with freshly baked delicious pies and cakes. But, as a rule, it takes a lot of products and a huge amount of time. And so I want to relax a little longer and not spend the whole weekend preparing everyone's favorite dish. Try to make a crazy pie. You will spend a minimum of time on baking. The recipe will not cause any particular difficulties for the hostesses. Women say that pastries are prepared very quickly and using the most affordable products. And yes, she has amazing taste.

History of American Crazy Pie

The story goes that crazy pie is an American dish. Rumor has it that the creation of the recipe was done already in the 30s of the last century. From 1929 to 1939, the world was “dominated” by the global economic crisis, which the Americans called

In these difficult times, people had to cut back heavily on food. However, sweet dishes have always been welcomed, since they are the ones that can improve mood, as well as save you from stress and severe depression. That's why the crazy pie was created. The recipe from American chefs turned out to be simple, and the result is simply amazing in taste.

Ask why the pastry got such a name? No one will give an answer to this question, since a lot of time has passed. We can only thank the Americans for such a great recipe.

Classic recipe

After reviewing the recipe for an American pie, you ask: where are the butter, eggs, dairy products? The madman of which is indicated in our article is prepared using the following products:

• 1.5 cups of sifted flour;
• 1 cup powdered sugar or sugar;
• 5 g of soda;
• 5 ml of vinegar;
• 4 tbsp. l. with a slide of cocoa powder;
• salt on the tip of a spoon;
• 2 tsp without a slide of vanilla sugar;
• 200-230 ml of water;
• 80-100 ml of refined vegetable oil;
• 1 ripe banana.

Step by step cooking instructions

First, take a deep bowl. We introduce flour, soda, sugar, salt, vanilla sugar, cocoa powder into the container. Mix all dry ingredients thoroughly with a regular spoon. Next, add vinegar and vegetable oil. Mix well again. Gradually introduce water. Stir with a whisk so that no lumps remain. The result should be a mixture that resembles thick sour cream.

Next, turn on the oven and heat it up. Lubricate the form with vegetable oil and sprinkle with semolina (you can use special baking paper). Pour the prepared dough into a mold and place in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. The approximate baking time for the cake is 30-40 minutes. It is better to check the readiness with a match or a toothpick. If after that there remains dough, then the cakes should be held a little longer.

If our future crazy pie, the recipe of which is absolutely simple, has risen well, it can be cut into two (or three) identical halves. It is better to carry out the cutting procedure after the cake has completely cooled.

It should be noted that the classic does not involve the preparation of cream. But in this case, you can experiment. To do this, twist one ripe banana in a blender along with a tablespoon of cocoa powder. Soak the cakes and put the pastries in the refrigerator for soaking. If you want to diversify the dish even more, melt the chocolate in the microwave and pour the cake on top.

Everything and everything, you can serve our crazy pie to the table (the recipe with the photo will help you prepare the dessert correctly). Enjoy extraordinary taste!

Crazy cake (crazy cake). Recipe with pumpkin

This simple recipe is for true connoisseurs of baking with pumpkin. So, to make a pie, we need:

• 300 g of sifted premium flour;
• 2 tsp confectionery powder (baking powder for dough);
• half a kilogram of pumpkin;
• 1 cup raisins or other dried fruits;
• 1 st. l. cognac;
• ground cinnamon on the tip of a spoon;
• ¼ tsp vanillin;
• 1 orange;
• 10 ml of honey.

How to cook? Step-by-step instruction

First, let's clean the pumpkin. We will free it from seeds and peel. Cut the vegetable into small cubes. Sprinkle sugar on top and pour cognac. In the meantime, we extract the zest from the orange. To do this, grate the citrus peel on a fine grater and add to the pumpkin. There we will introduce cloves, honey and cinnamon. Mix everything thoroughly and put in the microwave for a minute so that the pumpkin gives juice and the honey dissolves.

Then we take the flour and sift (so the cakes will turn out tender and airy). Add baking powder to it. Gradually add flour to pumpkin. Mix until smooth. Add raisins and mix again. Before using dried fruits, they should be placed in boiling water for 15 minutes to soften.

Pumpkin crazy cake (crazy cake), the recipe with the photo of which you are now studying, can also be prepared in a slow cooker. To do this, prepare the dough, set the baking mode and bake for 50-60 minutes without opening the appliance lid. Take out the cake with the help of a container for steam dishes. Let the cake cool completely before soaking. Our American pie is ready. Bon appetit!

If your household doesn't really like pumpkin, don't worry! Due to orange, honey and cinnamon, the taste of this healthy vegetable will practically not be felt. And one more thing: try to cut the pumpkin as small as possible, then the cake will turn out tender and soft.

with milk

There is another variation of making a crazy cake. For the recipe we need:

• 1 cup of sifted flour of the highest grade;
• 10 mg i.e. baking powder for dough;
• 150 g of granulated sugar or sugar;
• 3-4 st. l. cocoa powder;
• 1 glass of milk.

We take a deep container in which we will knead the dough. Add flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, sugar. Mix everything thoroughly. We add milk to the dry mixture, which we preheat to room temperature. The dough should turn out like thick sour cream.

Turn on the oven and heat it up to 190 degrees. Lubricate the baking sheet with vegetable oil, sprinkle with semolina, pour the dough and put in the oven for 40 minutes. Readiness is checked with a toothpick. When the cake is cooked, take it out and let it cool.

If you want a crazy cake (we have already discussed the recipe with milk) to look festive, you can make cream and chocolate icing.

Variant of sour cream for American pie

For the cream, take 1 cup of sour cream (fatty), half a cup of sugar, a pinch of cinnamon and vanilla sugar. Introduce the indicated ingredients into a deep container. Take a mixer and beat the mixture thoroughly until a homogeneous, fluffy consistency is obtained. Add cinnamon and vanilla and continue beating. Readiness is checked with a spoon. If the mixture does not fall, then the cream is ready.

Learning how to make custard

The next option for greasing a crazy pie is to make custard. It will require 250 ml of milk, 1 egg, half a glass of sugar, 1.5 tbsp. l. sifted flour.

In a deep bowl, mix flour, milk (125 ml) and egg until smooth. Pour the rest of the milk into a small saucepan and carefully add the sugar. Set fire to minimum. Stir the mixture constantly. Bring to a boil and pour the composition from the bowl. Stir a little more and turn off the stove. Continue stirring until the cream thickens. Now it's done! You can soak our crazy American pie. The recipe, as you can see, is not at all complicated and even novice hostesses can do it.

And what about condensed milk?

Delicious, fat and very fast cream, which is suitable not only for our version, but also for any other cakes and pies. So, let's take half a can of condensed milk, a pack of butter and 2 eggs.

Soften the butter, but do not melt, add condensed milk and yolks. Beat all the ingredients with a mixer or blender until thick sour cream.

With the help of cream, you can not only soak the cakes, but also decorate any pastry using special confectionery syringes.

Glaze

With the help of icing, you can decorate any cake. It is prepared from various ingredients, but for our American pie, it is chocolate made from cocoa powder that is suitable. To prepare the glaze, take 60 g of butter, 3 tbsp. l. cocoa powder, 4 tbsp. l. sugar and 80 ml of milk. We take a small saucepan, we introduce cocoa, sugar and milk there. Put on a slow fire and stir constantly. Keep on the stove until the sugar dissolves. Then add the oil and mix thoroughly again. Keep it until the butter melts. Then, with hot icing, we spread the crazy pie (the recipe with the photo is a little higher) on top and on the sides.

After spreading and icing, it is better to place it in the refrigerator, then the cake will be completely soaked and saturated. This is how you can decorate and diversify our crazy pie (recipe reviews are highly recommended). Now you can brew fragrant tea and call everyone to the table!

Enjoy your meal!

I never wrote comments, but here I could not resist and even registered to upload a photo with my first result. I don't bake very often and I don't have much experience. But of all my experiments with cakes and pies, this one is the most delicious so far, my husband said. I gave it to my parents, they liked it too. And I liked that the recipe is sooooo simple, the products are all available, you don’t need a lot. indeed, completely without problems - I mixed the dry ingredients, poured warm milk, stirred a little and into the oven preheated to the specified temperature (180 degrees) - maybe someone didn’t rise here because the oven was cold ... I kept it there, as it is written , 40 minutes, then opened it, pierced it with a toothpick - not a dry, even a little wet biscuit, but baked evenly, rose, held it for a maximum of five minutes, so as not to overdry, and took it out. The only thing is that in order for the cake to move away better, I lubricated the form (I have a glass one, I read it, it doesn’t burn in this one, so I bought it) with butter and sprinkled with a little flour. With the cream, there was also the question of how much to keep on fire (for the first time I did this), but in the process it became clear that it had thickened moderately, which means it was ready, it also turned out to be very easy to cook it. Now I decided to make this cake again (both my husband and I bought milk so that it wouldn’t be lost, especially cocoa left), so I went here to remember the proportions, saw the negative reviews and I’m wondering where, sorry, my hands should grow so that it doesn’t work out, did not rise (maybe it was not necessary to open the oven in the process, I read that the biscuit falls because of this), did not bake (that they could not bake for two hours !!! - so this is most likely a faulty oven, this simply cannot be ) and was like rubber (I have the most tender and softest! Perhaps you really had a bad baking powder, otherwise it’s hard to explain, because even a child can do this cake and it’s very difficult to spoil it). With the ingredients and their quantity, everything is very clear. The biscuit is delicious on its own. It's also delicious with cream, but next time I'll try to make a different cream, just for fun. Or maybe today I will experiment with the cream while the dough is being baked. If anything - unsubscribe. By the way, we tried this cake right away, still warm - we liked it (it’s still warm in the photo, the cream didn’t freeze, it didn’t soak). The next day they ate from the refrigerator - my husband said it tasted better) The cake is very sweet for me (you can safely drink tea without sugar), but this makes it no less tasty, a milky biscuit with cocoa flavor (there was also an idea to add a little coffee for additional flavor, perhaps , I'll do that now). I also thought that you can add berries to the dough, instead of cream, someday I will try (the cake is sweet, so you can put sour berries). Do not be afraid to cook, experiment, learn from your mistakes, and most importantly - do it with a positive attitude, then everything will work out! Thanks to the author for the recipe!

The story says that Crazy Cake (which is translated from English as Crazy Pie) came to us from the 30s from the USA.

Vegan Chocolate Crazy Cake

From 1929 to 1939, the world economic crisis lasted, which in the states was called the Great Depression. In this difficult time, we had to save on everything, and even on the cheapest products.

Perhaps, the description of the period of the economic crisis is somewhat reminiscent of the 90s, which our compatriots also endured with difficulty.

But be that as it may, delicious food, and especially sweets, is the main recipe for curing a bad mood and even depression! Maybe that's why the Crazy Cake chocolate cake turned out so delicious?

Why is Crazy Cake called that way? It is unlikely that anyone will be able to remember the origins of this original name. But we can assume that the cake is called crazy due to its incredible taste. After all, if you try a piece of chocolate cake, and then find out that there are no eggs or dairy products among the ingredients, you will most likely confirm that this is an insanely delicious cake! Insanely delicious or crazy delicious - it doesn't matter! The main thing is that even in a difficult period of time, sweet teeth always had the opportunity to treat themselves to a piece of chocolate pie.

So, to prepare Crazy Cake you will need:

• 1 1/2 tbsp. flour
• 1 st. sugar (it will be very sweet)
• 4 tbsp. l. with a heap of cocoa powder
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 tsp vinegar
• a pinch of salt
• 2 tsp vanilla sugar
• 1 st. water
• 4-5 art. l. vegetable oil without a bright taste (refined sunflower, olive). It will turn out very tasty with coconut oil, but it was not in the original recipe.
• cream banana (optional)

Step by Step Vegan Chocolate Crazy Cake Recipe

Turn on the oven, and while it is heating, mix all the dry ingredients in a deep bowl (or in a baking dish). Then add vegetable oil and vinegar, mix thoroughly.

Pour water into the dough and mix everything again with a whisk, breaking up all the lumps. You should get a homogeneous, thick mass. Pour the chocolate batter into a baking dish. You do not need to beat the dough hard, the main thing is to break the lumps.

Put the mold in the oven and bake until fully cooked - 40 minutes at 180C. Readiness can be checked in the usual way: stick a match (with the side without sulfur) or a toothpick into the dough - if nothing sticks to a wooden stick, then the cake is ready. If the cake has risen well and turned out to be high, then it can be cut into two cakes and soaked with cream. The American Crazy Cake recipe does not provide for this option. But you will only win if you smear the shortcakes with whipped banana cream with cocoa!

So, at this stage, the cake is already ready to be eaten. But if you still decide to continue and slightly improve the recipe, then beat 1 ripe banana with 0.5 tsp. cocoa and grease the shortbread with a thin layer. In the same way, you can decorate the top of the cake. Important: before applying the cream on the cakes, let them cool slightly.

Chocolate vegan cake is ready! Now you can put it in the refrigerator or any cool place so that the cake is soaked and cooled. Or immediately cut into portions and treat guests.

Bon appetit!