| 2 cups 1 cup 1/2 cup 1 1/2 tsp 1 1/2 tsp 1 cup + 2 Tb 1 cup | Flour Sugar Cocoa Baking powder Baking soda Ice water Real Vanilla extract Mayonnaise |
| Oven Temp ~ 350° Baking Time ~ 30 Min. |
Sift together the first four ingredients. Add the ice water and vanilla. When mixed thoroughly, fold in the mayonnaise. If you're using a mixer, fold the mayonnaise in by hand. Stir just until mixed; do not over beat.
Pour into prepared pan and bake.
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.
Fragile Cake - better to leave in the pan and frost.
Homemade butter frosting:
| 1/2 cup 1 lb dash 1/2 cup 2 Tb 1 tsp | Butter Powdered sugar Salt Cocoa Milk Vanilla |
Cream butter, 1/2 sugar, and salt. Add cocoa and 1 tbsp milk. Cream.
Add sugar and milk until the consistency is right and then beat at mixer's
highest speed. Frost cake immediately.
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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