Chocolate Coffee Depression Cake is a moist and delicious, made from scratch cake recipe. It doesn't use eggs, milk, or butter, making it an allergy-friendly choice!

A long time ago, a friend told me she had made a Depression Cake.  I was interested by it, so I looked into how to make one and loved that it was an easy cake made from scratch.  However, I never got around to trying it until now.

From what I read, Depression Cake became a popular cake during the Great Depression and later WWII, when eggs and dairy products were scarce. People had to get creative to make ends meet.  With food costs so high right now, we're having to do the same again, so we've got 10 Easy Ways to Save Money on Your Grocery Budget to help you out!

A Depression Cake is a cake made with no eggs, no milk, and no butter.  It doesn't require a bowl, as all the ingredients are mixed in the pan you'll bake it in, so no extra dishes!

(Sorry about the shadows and the flour on the pan- I let the kids help me make the cake, and it got a little messy!)

I wanted to make a Chocolate Coffee Depression Cake, so I altered the original recipe, adding coffee and chocolate.  Go here for the original Depression Cake or Wacky Cake.

Since making this recipe, chocolate coffee depression cake has become one of my favorite cakes!  It is probably the most moist cake I have ever eaten.

I have a friend who doesn't like coffee, so she didn't want to try it, but when I convinced her that it doesn't really taste like coffee, she finally relented.  We both agreed that the coffee simply deepens the chocolate flavor and makes it amazing!

If you're looking for an amazing cake recipe that's allergy-friendly, this is the recipe for you!

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📖 Recipe

Yield: 8

Chocolate Coffee Depression Cake

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This Chocolate Coffee Depression Cake is moist and delicious, made from scratch, and uses no eggs, milk, or butter. Best of all, it's so easy!

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 35 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 ½ cups flour
• 3 tablespoon Cocoa
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 5 tablespoon vegetable or canola oil
• 1 cup room-temperature coffee
• Chocolate Frosting, Use your favorite recipe

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350º. Grease an 8x8 pan (or double ingredients for a 13x9 pan).
2. Measure dry ingredients into the pan and stir together.
3. Make one large depression and 2 small depressions in the dry ingredients.
4. Into the large depression, measure the oil.
5. Measure vinegar into one small depression and vanilla into the other.
6. Pour coffee over everything and stir until no lumps remain.
7. Bake for 35 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
8. You can cool and then frost, or for a smoother look put the frosting on while it's hot.

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