Chocolate-Mayonnaise Cake

[BreezyCooking]

Uh - where's the chocolate?

[Barb L]

I googled and a recipe said 1/2 cup cocoa, if that helps

[elaine l]

It does call for cocoa. Didn't notice it was missing but remember the mayo part. Good call Breezy.

[Green Lady]

I just dug out my aunt's Mayonaisse Cake recipe. The ingredients are roughly the same as what Goodweed posted, but roughly doubled. Here is my Auntie Evie's recipe for Mayonaisse Cake:

4 c. flour 1/2 t. salt
2 c. sugar 2 c. mayo
8 T. cocoa 2 c. water
4 t. soda 2 t. vanilla

Mix all in bowl. Blend well. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 min, in a 16 x 20 pan.
Frost with favorite frosting. (I'm sure the pan should be greased or else use parchment paper)

The flavor was wonderful. I always thought the mayo brought out the flavor of the cocoa.

[kadesma]

Well, the cake is really a nice moist, feather light cake..I'm not much of a baker, so I just grabbed some nice unsweetened dark cocoa and added half a cup to the sugar and flour gave them a whirl mixed in the rest of the ingredients and prayed real hard.. If I can bake this cake and not get a door stop, your all of you are gonna love it...It is a really nice cake even without frostingBoth a dab of whipped cream and/or ice cream work beautifully here.

kadesma

[Dina]

Made your recipe into cupcakes for the kids. They enjoyed them topped with green peanut butter/cream cheese frosting as the witches' heads and chocolate coins with chocolate covered candy corns for the hats. Very cute and tasty treats. Thanks.

[BreezyCooking]

Thanks for the suggestions. Goodweed did say that the "cake is very rich and chocolatey", but doesn't mention adding any chocolate at all. Maybe he'll see this & amend the recipe? I'd love to try it as he described it. : )

[jpmcgrew]

Originally Posted by BreezyCooking

Uh - where's the chocolate?

I was just going to ask the same question.

[BlueCat]

Originally Posted by BreezyCooking

Uh - where's the chocolate?

That's exactly what I thought. I went through a couple of responses and nobody asked about the chocolate, and so I went back and looked again... I thought I was losing it!

BC

[JMediger]

We make a chocolate snack cake that uses mayo and I am continually amazed at the flavor. Like goodweed said, it is rich so we bipass the frosting for just powdered sugar ...