Pair cake slices with ice cream, fresh fruit, or even peanut butter frosting for variety. Did you know this dessert goes by ...

Cover with 1 cup cold water. Stir well with fork. Bake 30 minutes. Frost as desired and serve. A wacky cake recipe from 1963 recommended the following frosting.

And don’t forget the chocolate frosting! It puts this cake over the top! Depression cake, sometimes referred to as Wacky Cake, is a type of cake that emerged during the Great Depression.