Wacky Cake

One of the family traditions we have in our home is to make chocolate-covered strawberries for Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately this year, I was not able to find any decent looking strawberries in our small Sicilian town. So I went on the hunt for a new recipe that could satisfy the bill of being a chocolaty Valentine’s Day treat. That is how I stumbled upon the Gingerbread Bagels site and her Wacky Cake recipe.

The recipe itself is pretty simple and only takes about 45 minutes from start to finish. And it was definitely chocolaty! It got the seal of approval from all five of the cake eaters in our home (even my oldest who insisted as we were making it that she only liked vanilla cake). One of my favorite things about the cake was that it holds its tastes a few days afterwards. Where a lot of cakes made from scratch can go stale, this still tasted moist and fabulous two days later.

Hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day and is having a wonderful week.