Need a recipe

[Audrey.Thompson]

I had never heard of dump cake before, and I'm curious -- when did this kind of cake become popular?  Was it a 50s or 60s invention, maybe?  Or maybe it is recent and just passed me by.  I looked it up on the web, and there are lots of recipes for it, but no one says when it got started.  It reminds me a little of "wacky" cake in terms of how everything is dumped in one pan.

Audrey

[Teresa]

I don't know when.. but it sure is easy to make..

[Bonnie M.]

I think it's been around for a long time, and it probably started out as a "wacky cake," because, it sort of is!  You do have to wonder if discovering how easy it is to make was an accident, or if someone really started experimenting, and it just really turned out good!

[Jo McDonald]

Kinda like going on a date -- then ending up married, huh?

     

[Teresa]

Now THAT has an undertone of a good story ...
Okay ... tell it!

[Jo McDonald]

  Are you Joking?  TELL IT ??     NEVER  !!!!

[Teresa]

  RATS!!!

[Diane Amberg]

I found a recipe (for whacky cake, not rat) in a 1961 cook book so it goes back at least that far.