During the Great Depression, ingredients like eggs and butter were expensive and scarce. Amid the shortages and economic turmoil, bakers got creative with a recipe known as "Depression cake" or "wacky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. chocolate cake sliced - Olga Mazyarkina/Getty Images During a time when basic ingredients were rationed, people got creative and ...

I tried 'Depression cake,' a recipe from the Great Depression with no eggs or dairy. It's my new favorite dessert.

Picture this: you're rummaging through your pantry in 1933, desperate to bake something sweet for your family. You've got no eggs. No milk. No butter. Yet somehow, you create a cake that's moist, rich ...

We know, sometimes the jokes write themselves. ‘Can’t every chcolate cake be a depression cake?’ You may ask. But, really our chocolate ‘depression’ cake is from the Depression era. A centurian recipe ...