The Best Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake is moist, rich, and loaded with flavor. This mayo cake is topped with a chocolate frosting for added sweetness.
Ingredients
2 - 15ozbox of chocolate cake mix
2CReal Mayo
6large eggs
2Cwater
1 10inround cake board
3inround cake pans
Frosting ingredients:
1 1/2Cunsalted sweet cream butter, softened
1 - 8ozcream cheese, soften
1 1.2Hershey special dark cocoa powder
1tbsppure vanilla extract
7Cpowder sugar
1/4Cheavy whipping cream
Large ice cream scooper
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 and grease the cake pans with pam baking spray and set aside. Then in a stand mixer, you will mix the cake ingredients until the batter is smooth.
Divide the batter evenly between the 3 cake pans.0
Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Allow cooling completely before removing from cake pans.
Frosting Directions:
Using the standing mixer, beat the cream cheese and butter until combined and smooth.
Now you will gradually mix in the cocoa powder, vanilla and salt.
Very slowly, beat in the powdered sugar until combined and you have a creamy texture.
Whisk in the heavy whipping cream until the ice cream is smooth and fluffy.
Scoop 1 cup of frosting into the piping bag.
Directions to build the cake:
Place 1 layer of cake onto the cake board.
Using the ice cream scooper, scoop out 4-6 scoops of frosting and smooth evenly on one layer of cake.
Place another layer of cake on top and spread more frosting.
Place the last layer on top and frost the remaining cake with remaining frosting.