Mayonnaise Cake

Original Recipe

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.