Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
This chocolate mayonnaise cake is going to blow your mind! Super moist and rich in flavor.
This is an easy cake to make from scratch. It only takes a few ingredients that you more than likely have in your pantry already.
When you want a decadent easy chocolate cake to make for family and friends this is your cake! Another delicious choice would be my Strawberry Roll Cake.
Tips for making chocolate mayonnaise cake
- Use full-fat mayonnaise it produces the moistest cake.
- Don’t over-mix the batter.
- Do not over-bake your cake, once a toothpick comes out clean its done!
Why add mayonnaise to a cake?
Mayonnaise is basically eggs and oil. Mayonnaise will boost the moisture level in a cake when added to the batter. And don’t worry you can't taste any mayonnaise.
How to store a chocolate mayonnaise cake.
As with any cake make sure it's airtight to retain moistness and freshness. If you make the ganache frosting store up to 3 days at room temp or 1 week in the refrigerator.
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Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2/3 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs
- 1 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 cup mayonnaise Hellmans or Best Foods
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 1/3 cup water
- Almond slices optional
Ganache Frosting
- 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 8 ounces semi sweet chocolate chips 1 1/2 cups
- 1 tablespoon butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Spray a 9x13 baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a small bowl whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda baking powder and salt.
- In a medium bowl using a hand mixer, beat sugar and eggs until combined. Add in mayonnaise, water, and vanilla and mix until combined.
- Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix just until combined.
- Pour batter into the baking pan and bake 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let cake cool before frosting.
Ganache Frosting - Heat heavy whipping cream in a medium saucepan on medium-low heat. Once it starts to simmer (about 3-4 minutes) turn off the heat and add chocolate chips and whisk until melted. Add in the butter and whisk until melted.
- Let frosting cool completely, then using the hand mixer, mix the frosting until fluffy.
- Spread on cooled cake.
Frost and enjoy!
Hi again, I didn’t see the water in the video, just in the ingredients and instructions. Can you clarify this please. Thanks
Hi, do you think I could put this in a bunt pan? Looks so good !!!
It should be like a normal cake batter. There is a video to watch on the recipe card to help you to compare.
Is the batter supposed to be watery?. Its so thin.
Thank you Sandra! All fixed 🙂
Did you know that the recipe calls for baking soda twice, I know one of them is the baking powder, which is the measurement for each.