1-1/2 tbsp. flour
1 tbsp. sugar (it will be very sweet)
4 tbsp. l. with a slide of cocoa powder
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp vinegar
a pinch of salt
2 tsp. vanilla sugar
1 tbsp. water
4-5 tbsp. l. vegetable oil without a bright taste (refined sunflower, olive). It will turn out very tasty with coconut oil, but it was not in the original recipe.
banana for cream (optional)
Turn on the oven, and while it is heating, mix all the dry ingredients in a deep bowl (or in a baking dish). Then add vegetable oil and vinegar, mix thoroughly.
Pour water into the dough and mix everything again with a whisk, breaking up all the lumps. You should get a homogeneous, thick mass. Pour the chocolate batter into a baking dish. You do not need to beat the dough hard, the main thing is to break the lumps.
Put the mold in the oven and bake until fully cooked. Readiness can be checked in the usual way: stick a match (with the side without sulfur) or a toothpick into the dough – if nothing sticks to a wooden stick, then the cake is ready. If the cake has risen well and turned out to be high, then it can be cut into two cakes and soaked with cream.
The American Crazy Cake recipe does not provide for this option. But you will only win if you smear the shortbreads with a cream of whipped banana with cocoa!
So, at this stage, the cake is already ready to be eaten. But if you still decide to continue and slightly improve the recipe, then beat 1 ripe banana with 0.5 tsp. cocoa and grease the shortbread with a thin layer. In the same way, you can decorate the top of the cake. Important: before applying the cream on the cakes, let them cool slightly.