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Chocolate Miracle Cake Recipe
by Jann from PA

Chocolate Miracle Cake

Also, known as Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake. Mayonnaise sounds like a weird cake ingredient, but it just replaces the eggs and oil. Actually, the cake was "invented" by Hellmann's because of food shortages during the war. It used Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise. But, Kraft's Foods was not to be upstaged, so they did their own recipe and promoted it on their Miracle Whip Salad Dressing (a very popular alternative to mayo). One wonders if they were/are as competitive as Coke/Pepsi!

Rating: 5/5
Avg. 5/5 2 votes
Prep time: United States American
Cook time: Servings: 20

Ingredients

  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 and 1/2 cups sugar
  • 3 teaspoons baking soda
  • 6 tablespoons cocoa powder
  • 1 and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1 and 1/2 cups cold water
  • 1 and 1/2 cups mayonnaise

Directions

  1. Mix all ingredients in order given.
  2. Pour into a greased 9x12" pan.
  3. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
  4. Cool and frost!
  5. My family likes Peanut Butter Frosting best.
  6. Make vanilla butter frosting and add about 1/2 cup peanut butter.