Well I’ve been a very busy girl over the past couple of days. With a picnic in the park looming, I decided to make some cupcakes I mean, you have to have cakes at a picnic, it’s the law, surely! As I am loving the chocolate mayonnaise cake at the moment, I went for that in muffin cases. As expected
, they were divine and I whipped up a chocolate butter icing to go on top.
Chocolate Butter Icing
140g/5oz Butter, softened
250g/10oz Icing Sugar
1 heaped tbsp Cocoa Powder
1-2 tbsp Milk
Beat the butter until soft then add half the icing sugar and cocoa and beat until smooth.
Add the remaining icing sugar with one tablespoon of the milk and beat until creamy.
I spooned my butter icing on top of the cupcakes but you could use an icing tool.
I love to make cakes an if I am completely honest, I love to eat them too! I had heard that the chocolate cake made with mayo was one of the nicest chocolate cakes you could eat and having stumbled across a recipe online I just had to have a go. It was absolutely amazing, moist, chocolaty, light and rich – everything a girl could want in a chocolate cake.
Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
2 cups SR Flour
2/3 (two-thirds) cup Cocoa Powder
1 & 1/3 (one-third) tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
¼ tsp Baking Powder
1 & 2/3 (two-thirds) cup Caster Sugar
3 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
1 cup Mayonnaise
1 1/3 (one-third) cups water
1. Grease and line two 9 inch round cake pans & preheat the oven to 350f/ 180c or Gas Mark 4
2. In a bowl stir together flour, cocoa, bicarb and powder, set aside
3. In large bowl using mixer at high speed beat sugar, eggs and vanilla for 3 minutes or until light and fluffy, occasionally scraping bowl
4. Reduce speed to low and beat in mayonnaise
5. Add the dry ingredients in 4 additions alternately with water, beginning and ending with flour
6. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean
7. Allow to cool in tins for 10 mins, remove and cool on wire rack
You can eat this cake without a frosting, although I just used chocolate spread and sprinkles.
For a boy who doesn’t eat cake usually he seemed to enjoy this one – hence the lack of mess!
