Best Chocolate Mayo Cake With Cocoa Mayo Frosting

Submitted by Chef #898710

"Moist, delicious cake and frosting made largely from pantry items. Perfect when you want a great cake and you don't have eggs or butter on hand. Scrumptious! *Miracle whip can be substituted for Mayo in cake recipe, but not for icing."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 8-10

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup cocoa powder
• 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate chips
• 2⁄3 cup mayonnaise
• 1 egg
• 1 cup strong hot coffee
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1⁄2 cup packed cocoa powder
• 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon milk

directions

1. Pre-heat oven to 350. Spray 8x8 inch square pan or 9 inch round pan with non-stick spray. In a large bowl whisk together flour, sugar, soda, and salt. In a medium bowl combine cocoa, chocolate chips, and coffee- whisk until smooth. Add mayo, egg, and vanilla to chocolate mixture, whisk to combine. Pour chocolate mixture into flour mixture, whisk until well blended. Bake for 30 - 35 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center has only small crumbs attached. Cool in pan ten minutes before inverting onto serving platter. Cool two hours.
2. Beat cocoa powder, vanilla, and mayo together until well combined. Add sugar and milk, whip until smooth.
3. Frost cooled cake with icing. Enjoy!

Reviews

[cassie4560]

This frosting recipe is quite good. However, I did have to add more milk to it to reach a smooth frosting consistency. The amount suggested was not enough. I halved the recipe and it was enough to cover the tops of the 7 chocolate-mayo cupcakes I had made with another recipe, very similar to this one. It´s a good, simple recipe and I´m glad I gave it a try. I think this will be my go to chocolate frosting recipe since I usually have the ingredients on hand. I haven´t tried the cake recipe so this rating is just for the frosting...