Original Recipe

Mayonnaise Cake

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup cocoa
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla essence
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • ¾ cup mayonnaise

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Mix the cocoa, hot water and vanilla essence together in a jug. Cool.
  2. Sift the flour, baking soda and sugar in a bowl and make a well in the centre.
  3. Combine the mayonnaise with the cocoa mixture and then pour in the well. Mix together gently.
  4. Pour into a well greased and lined 20cm round cake tin.
  5. Bake for 35-40 minutes until the cake is cooked when tested. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a cake rack.
  6. When cold, ice with a chocolate ganache, or dust with icing sugar to serve.