{"id":409,"date":"2008-01-12T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/wacky-cake\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T19:53:11","slug":"wacky-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/wacky-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some months ago my husband decided he wanted chocolate cake, but had trouble finding a recipe that called for cocoa rather than chocolate. (He eventually found one. That was the night of the icing fire.) After that I asked my mom for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookscountry.com\/recipe.asp?recipeids=3256&#038;bdc=39072&#038;extcode=NO7ED4AJ1\">Wacky Cake<\/a> recipe, which I finally made last night (not exactly the one linked to, but close enough). Turned out really well &#8211; moist and chocolaty. We skipped the icing, though, as I was short on time.<\/p>\n<p>I think it turned out so well because of the secret ingredient. It calls for 2 cups of sugar, and after I measured about 1\/3 cup of sugar I discovered that was all we had.  We had some light brown sugar, but it was dried into a solid block.  Tried stabbing it with a knife and barely made a dent. Luckily my faithful assistant came up with the bright idea of grating it.  Even more luckily, he grated it while I ran off and did some work upstairs. Sounded like he was scrubbing pots.<\/p>\n<p>Today, spurred by an article in the paper about farmer&#8217;s markets that still have local produce this time of year, we ventured to the Worthington farmer&#8217;s market, which is really hard to find. We didn&#8217;t see any of the greens that are supposedly available, perhaps because we got there too late, but did get some squash and shallots and sausage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some months ago my husband decided he wanted chocolate cake, but had trouble finding a recipe that called for cocoa rather than chocolate. (He eventually found one. That was the night of the icing fire.) After that I asked my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/wacky-cake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}