Crazy Cake with Marshmallow Frosting

 

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There are a few things to keep in mind when making this recipe.
  1. Only use a glass 9X13 cake pan.
  2. Do not use any metal utensils and yes, you have to mix by hand
Ingredients:
  • 3 C. flour
  • 2 C. sugar
  • 6 T. cocoa
  • 1 1/2 tsp. soda
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 2/3 C. oil
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 tsp. vinegar
  • 2 C. water       
Cake Instructions:
  1. Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Then sift again into the cake pan (do not grease). Then sift again into the bowl and one more time into glass cake pan.  
  2. After sifting 4 times, make 3 wells in mixture in cake pan.
  3. Add the vanilla into one of the wells, the vinegar in the second well and the oil in the third well.  The oil will spill over and that's just fine.  
  4. Pour the water around the edges and mix with rubber spatula until thoroughly mixed like a cake mix. 
  5. Bake in a 350 degree oven for approximately 30 minutes or until toothpick 
    inserted in cake comes out clean.  
Cupcake Instructions:
  1. Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Then sift again into another bowl.
  2. Repeat this one more time (it should be sifted 4 times)
  3. Make 3 wells in mixture in the final bowl.
  4. Add the vanilla into one of the wells, the vinegar in the second well and the oil in the third well. The oil will spill over and that's just fine.
  5. Pour the water around the edges and mix with a rubber spatula until thoroughly mixed like a cake mix.
  6. Pour mixture into cupake liners in a cupcake pan and bake at 350 degrees for approximately 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean.
Marshmallow Frosting
  • 5 T. Flour
  • 1 C. milk
  • 1/2 C. butter or margarine
  • 1/2 C. shortening
  • 1 C. sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
Instructions:
  1. Whisk the milk and flour in a saucepan on stove.
  2. Cook until it becomes a pasty substance (like paste glue)...LOL
  3. Take off heat and cool in refrigerator. (Cover with plastic wrap, so no skin forms)
  4. Make sure it is cold to the touch before adding to the rest of the ingredients.
  5. After the paste has cooled coming the sugar, butter or margarine, vanilla and paste and beat for at least 5 minutes. 
  6. Spread on cake