This classic chocolate mayonnaise cake is probably the best moist chocolate cake recipe you will find anywhere.
Chocolate cake is just about everyone’s favorite and if you can make it easily at home, it is even better.
This is such an easy chocolate cake to make that I am sure you will bake it over and over again, any day of the week.
How to Make the Best Moist Chocolate Cake
The best moist chocolate cake gets to be called that because of an amazing secret ingredient that you would never believe would be added to a chocolate cake recipe – mayonnaise.
The use of mayonnaise sounds strange but it ensures a moist cake every time.
Don’t ask me how it works that mayonnaise makes the cake so light and moist without making it taste like mayonnaise. I have no idea why that happens. The good news is simply that it does.
The addition of a bit of mayonnaise to the chocolate batter is all this recipe needs to take it from a great chocolate cake to the best chocolate cake you will probably ever eat.
Give it a try the next time you want chocolate cake and make sure you bookmark this recipe. I am pretty sure that you will want to return to it over and over again.
Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 2/3 cup cocoa
- 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 eggs
- 1 2/3 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1 1/3 cups water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Grease and flour 2 - 9" round cake pans.
- Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder. Mix well and set aside.
- Beat together eggs, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl for 3 minutes, using the high speed of an electric mixer. Mixture should be smooth and creamy. Reduce speed to low and beat in mayonnaise until blended.
- Add flour mixture in batches, alternating with water, in 4 equal additions (1/4 of the flour, then 1/4 of the water etc). Pour the batter into the prepared cake pans.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until the center of the cake springs back when lightly touched or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake is clean when removed. Cool in pans on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from the pans and allow to cool completely before frosting with your favorite frosting.
Nutrition
Note:
- This recipe calls for mayonnaise and not Miracle Whip or another similar salad dressing. I have not substituted salad dressing so I can’t tell you how that would turn out, but Miracle Whip type dressings do have a more tangy flavor than mayo.
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