Mayonnaise Chocolate Cake Recipe

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:

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.