Here is an easy-as-pants cake recipe:
2 1/2 cups dried fruit (mixed dried fruit good, or dried apricots and desiccated coconut, just dates)
1 pint liquid (570 mL I have a pint glass that I use. Liquid can be juice, milk/soy milk,even used coffee)
1 cup All Bran
1 cup sugar (any kind)

Put all these ingredients together and leave to sit for one hour. Add 1 cup flour, put in a greased cake tin, bake for 1 hour at 180oC. It looks really runny, but the bran sucks up all the juice and helps it to hold together. This week I did it with coffee and dates and sent it to DH's work where I am now something of a culinary hero.