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- Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
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- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 heaping tablespoons cocoa
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
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- In large mixing bowl sift together (or just mix well) dry ingredients.
- Add wet ingredients. Mix until smooth (about 2 minutes). Pour into
- greased and floured pan (8"x8", 9"x9", or tube pan - I use a 9" tube
- pan). Bake at 350F for 35-45 minutes. Use toothpick test.
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- Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
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- This is a traditional family recipe. I think my grandma got it
- off of a Hellman's label forty years ago. It is very dark, very
- rich, and requires *lots* of milk and/or ice cream to wash it down.
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- It is a fragile cake, and so doesn't lend well to layers (it's
- possible, but you must be very careful). We usually make it in
- a 9x13x2 pan and frost it in the pan so that it's easy to transport
- to family gatherings.
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- It is also a very easy cake; you can make it in one bowl with
- a wooden spoon. Be sure to use real mayonnaise (not light) and
- cold water so that the mayonnaise doesn't separate. The mayonnaise
- is the shortening and the eggs.
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- Sift together:
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- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
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- Add:
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- 1 cup (+ 2 tbsp) ice water
- 2 tsp (+) real vanilla extract
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- When mixed thoroughly, fold in:
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- 1 cup real mayonnaise
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- If you're using a mixer, fold the mayonnaise in by hand. Stir just til
- mixed; do not overbeat. Pour into a greased and floured (or Baker's
- Joy'ed) 13x9x2 pan and bake 30 minutes at 350 F. Cake is done when
- it starts to pull away from the sides of the pan and the top starts to
- crack; you can also use a toothpick test; do not overcook. Cool
- five minutes before removing from the pan.
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- Frost with canned frosting or homemade butter frosting:
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- 1/2 stick butter
- 1 lb powdered sugar
- (dash salt)
- 1/2 cup cocoa (optional)
- 2 tbsp (+) milk
- 1 tsp (+) vanilla
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- Cream butter, 1/2 sugar, and salt. Add cocoa and 1 tbsp milk. Cream.
- Add sugar and milk til the consistency is right and then beat at
- mixer's highest speed. Frost cake immediately.
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