Spiced Crazy Cake – NO Eggs, Milk or Butter
This awesome from scratch cake has no eggs, milk or butter, you don’t even need a bowl, it’s super moist and delicious! This cake is also budget friendly, perfect for family and friends with egg and dairy allergies – it’s vegan! It’s also a super fun activity to do with kids. You probably have everything you need to make this cake right in your pantry.
**Be sure to check out all my crazy cake flavors – Chocolate, Snickerdoodle , Carrot, Lemon, Chocolate Mint and more!
WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE SPICED CRAZY CAKE
All-purpose flour, sugar, pumpkin spice, salt, baking soda, vanilla extract, white vinegar (or apple cider vinegar), vegetable oil (or canola oil) and water.
HOW TO MAKE SPICED CRAZY CAKE
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 8×8 inch square baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
Mix first 5 dry ingredients in a greased 8″ square baking pan. Make 3 depressions in dry ingredients – two small, one larger (see #3 in photo). Pour vinegar in one depression, vanilla in the other, and the vegetable oil in the third larger depression.
Pour water over all. Mix well until smooth. Bake on middle rack of the oven for 35 minutes. Check with toothpick to make sure it comes out clean. Cool. Top with your favorite vanilla frosting or dust with powdered sugar
Spiced Crazy Cake – No Eggs, Milk or Butter
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1 1/2 Cups flour + 2 Tablespoons (all-purpose)
- 1 Tablespoon pumpkin spice
- 1 Cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar (or apple cider vinegar)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 5 Tablespoons vegetable oil (or canola oil)
- 1 Cup water
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 8×8 inch square baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
Mix first 5 dry ingredients in a greased 8″ square baking pan. Make 3 depressions in dry ingredients – two small, one larger (see #3 in photo below). Pour vinegar in one depression, vanilla in the other and the vegetable oil in the third larger depression. Pour water over all. Mix well until smooth.
Bake on middle rack of the oven for 35 minutes. Check with toothpick to make sure it comes out clean. Cool. Top with your favorite vanilla frosting or dust with powdered sugar. Enjoy!
Frosting Recipes
Vegan Fluffy Buttercream frosting
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting (contains dairy)
Tips
- IMPORTANT – Make sure your baking soda and vinegar are fresh, they are what make the cake rise.
- You can double this recipe, just use a 9×13 baking pan.
- Mix the batter in a bowl for neater, easier mixing. Be sure to follow the directions the same way – mixing the dry ingredients, then making the depressions for the wet ingredients. Don’t forget to grease your pan.
Nancy
I love all your crazy cakes. Recently made the Lemon Blueberry, which is now my new favourite. However, I want to make one with dates and wondered if I use the Spice cake recipe and add chopped dates, should I cook them first?
Mary Neumann
That’s sounds wonderful, Nancy. You will just want to make sure the dates are soft. You can easily do this by placing them in a bowl or pan and filling it with boiling water and soaking them for about 10 minutes.
Alice
I just wanted to say, I’ve been using this recipe (and your other crazy cake variations) forever. They’re so reliable and stand up to all sorts of additions. I make them whenever I need a quick cake me up.
Just this morning I added 1/2 cup grated apple, 1/2 cup grated carrot and 1/3 cup crushed walnuts to the batter and replaced half the white sugar for dark brown. I also switched out a 1/2 cup of the flour for 1cup (yes, 1 cup) of oat flour. It’s such a lovely little breakfast cake now. Anyway, I love the recipes as is, and I love to modify them beyond recognition as well. Thank you!
Heidi W.
I have tried many of your crazy cake recipes since discovering your website several years ago, but this Spiced Crazy Cake is by far my favorite. In fact, it is my most requested cake recipe! It has become a standard stocking gift for Christmas. I combine all the dry ingredients to make a mix, put it in a zippered plastic bag labeled with additional ingredients and baking instruction. It make a great housewarming gift paired with a set of silicone muffin liners. Thank you so much for posting this delicious recipe!
Kim
So glad I found this! I recently had to give up eggs and gluten and this was the perfect simple recipe for a treat to bring to a potluck. It was really good with vanilla buttercream icing.
Noel
Hi!
Thanks for the recipes. I’ve made the carrot and vanilla cupcakes with a great gluten-free flour blend. Both a hit.
One question: I noticed that in a few of the recipes for crazy Cakes you increase the flour by 2 tablespoons.
Why is that?
I can understand more flour in the carrot cupcake recipe because there are additional ingredients that can add moisture, like the carrots. However, you also increase by 2 tablespoons in the spiced crazy cake, but that recipe actually has less liquid ingredients than in the vanilla crazy cake and some others.
I’m trying to understand the reason for the increased flour because I’m testing some of your recipes with gluten free flour and want to make sure that the texture comes out right.
Is this a typo? Should all of the recipes have the additional 2 tablespoons of flour?
Thanks so much!
Alyssa
Can you use baking powder instead of baking soda? I just ran out!
Shannon
Can you substitute apple cider vinegar for the white distilled? My youngest is allergic to corn and white vinegar can be made with corn.
Mary Neumann
Yes you can, Shannon – apple cider vinegar works too!
Denise F
Hi! FYI Re: Corn allergies. Years ago, my son as a child, was tested and diagnosed with an allergy to corn, at Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Clinic at UWMC. I brought in corn syrup and corn starch for them to make a paste to understand if they were safe for him. He had no reaction, because it was explained that if it has zero protein, then it is okay, because it is the protein that a person is allergic to. So, if something is made from corn, it doesn’t necessarily mean a person is allergic to it. Talk about this with your health professional. It’s helpful to understand that you can bring a product in to a clinic to create a customized skin test. This was helpful information for me to understand. It helped open up my son’s diet dramatically.