I'll Have My Chocolate with a Side of Mayo Please!

The power of advertising is really the ultimate reason why I even have a post at all today.  During the weekdays, we have all gotten in the habit of watching the Ellen show.  Its fun, the kids love to dance and she can sure make you laugh.  Everyday we see a commercial for Dukes Mayonnaise.  The speaker makes a Chocolate Cake touting that the best way to make the perfect cake is to make it with Mayonnaise.  Say what?  Every time that we see the commercial, Grace and I have been so curious about it.  Really? Mayo in a chocolate cake?

Well yesterday turned out to be a rainy dreary day so we thought that there would be nothing more fun to do than attempt our Mayo cake.  Here was our recipe:

• Cake:
• 6 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa
• 3 cups all purpose flour

• 1 Tbsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups Duke's Mayonnaise
• 1 1/2 tsp. Sauer's Vanilla Extract
• 1 1/2 cups cold water
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• Chocolate Icing
• 1 cup butter. softened
• 1 cup cocoa
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 5-6 cups confectioners' sugar
• 6 or more tablespoons milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease and flour two 8-inch cake pans. 
Sift cocoa, flour, baking soda, salt and sugar into a medium bowl, mix well. Combine mayonnaise, vanilla and water in an electric mixer at low speed. Once smooth, slowly add in dry mixture until just incorporated (do not over beat). Pour batter into cake pans and bake for 30 minutes or until done. Cool on wire racks and frost with your favorite chocolate frosting.

For Icing:
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter and cocoa with whisk attachment until smooth. Add vanilla. Add confectioners' sugar alternately with milk until icing reaches a spreadable consistency. (you may not need all 6 cups of sugar; you may need more than 6 tablespoons of milk)


I handled all of the wet ingredients including the questionable mayo.

Grace handled all of the dry ingredients.

We decided that a layer cake was the only real way to have a chocolate cake so we filled two pans and in 30 minutes they came out Mary Poppins style.

 Perfectly Perfect in every way.

Once cooled we made our scrumptious butter and cocoa frosting, frosted our cake and Voila!  The finished product.

IT WAS DELICIOUS!  Simply the best, made from scratch chocolate cake I have ever had. It was to die for.