Mayo chocolate cake

by Andrea Gámez

This mayo chocolate cake is one of the best cakes you will ever try in your life. It is a moist and delicious cake. With a sweet caramel or dulce de leche filling, and with a soft, smooth and creamy chocolate frosting.

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How to make mayonnaise chocolate cake

Cakes are the epitome of desserts, and chocolate cake is the epitome of cakes, so most of us will agree that chocolate cake is truly a classic. But there are types of chocolate cakes, there is the classic chocolate cake, or cakes with different fillings and frostings. Also, the cake itself varies a lot, which all comes together to make different chocolate cakes.

I don’t know if you are my age or even close, or if you grew up watching the same movies I did, but for all of you that remember the movie “Matilda“, this cakes reminds me of the one bruce had to eat. That cake is suppousedly made with sweat, blood and tears, or something like that, and though it may have repulsed many of us, the truth is it looked great, with that shiny and creamy chocolate frosting, everything a frosting should be.

Mayo chocolate cake

The funny thing about this cake is that the recipe calls for mayonnaise, and even when it may sound weird I swear it makes a huge difference, it makes the cake feels richer, at the end of the day, mayonnaise is nothing more than oil and eggs together, so it really isn’t weird to use it for a cake like this. Put that, the filling and the ganache together and this turns out to be quite glorious.

If you like this recipe, then you have to go see our classic chocolate cake recipe.

Mayo chocolate cake

5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 50 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings 10

Ingredients
  

For the batter:

  • 1 1/2 C flour
  • 1 C cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 1/2 C buttermilk
  • 1 tsp instant coffee
  • 1 C (225gr) butter at room temperature
  • 1 1/2 C granulated sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 C mayonnaise
  • 4 oz (112gr) semisweet chocolate chips

Fot the filling:

  • 13.5 oz (380gr) dulce de leche

For the ganache

  • 6 oz (170gr) semisweet chocolate chips
  • 3/4 C heavy cream
  • 1 pinch salt

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and line, with parchment paper, two round cake pans of about 8.5 inches in diameter.

For the batter:

  • In a big bowl sift together the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda. 
  • In a small bowl, pour the buttermilk and stir in the coffee powder. 
  • In a big bowl, place the butter and sugar, and beat using a mixer for about 8 minutes or until the mixture turns whiter in color and gets fluffy. 
  • Addn in one egg at a time, beating after each addition. Now mix in the mayonnaise.
  • Now beat in a third of the dry ingredients mixture, then add half of the buttermilk and coffee and mix, then the secind third of the flour, then the rest of the buttermilk and lastly the remaining third of the flour mixture, mixing in between each addition. Scrape down the bowl using a rubber spatula if needed when doing this. 
  • Using the rubber spatula fold in the chocolate chips into the batter. 
  • Pour half of the batter into one of the cake pans and the rest in the second one. Bake at 350°F (180°C) for about 35 minutes, or until a wooden stick comes out clean after inserting it. 
  • Let the cakes cool down for 12 minutes, and only then turn them out by flipping them onto a plate. 
  • To make the filling, place the heavy cream in a pan on the stove over medium heat, stiring with a spoon nonstop for about 3 minutes until the cream is hot. Quickly pour it into a small bowl and add in the chocolate chips, mixing with the spoon until the ganache takes form. Lastly stir in the salt. Let it cool down for a few minutes and then put it in the fridge for about 10 more minutes. 

To ensemble:

  • Place one of the cakes on a plate or cake stand (you can put some dulce the leche underneath to help the cake stay still), Now spread the dulce de leche on top, you can either do this by using a pippin pastry bag or just a spoon, just make sure the it is evenly spread. 
  • Place the second cake on top, pushing it down a little. Here we recommend you refrigerate it for a few more minutes if its hot where you live, or you can go on to the next step.
  • Take the ganache out of the fridge and using a spoon add some on top and work your way down and then to the sides, either using the spoon or an angled spatula. We like it to be simple, you can add some chocolate chips on top, cocoa, some other chocolates, etc, you decide.
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