CHOCOLATE MAYONNAISE CAKE .....

We made a tomato soup cake about 3 years ago in cooking class, it was a huge success and surprised everyone how a tin of tomato soup could turn into such a delicious cake .
Well here is a recipe that uses whole egg mayonnaise in place of eggs , this is delicious .
Grease and line the base of a 23 cm springform cake pan.
Preheat your oven to 180 deg C.
Using the bowl of your electric mixer ....
Add 250 gm self raising flour
60gm of cocoa powder
1/4 tsp of baking powder
200gm of castor sugar
225gm of whole egg mayonnaise
2 tsp of vanilla extract .
200ml of warm water .
Now beat with your electric mixer until smooth
Spread into the prepared pan
Bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean .
Remove from the pan and allow to cool completely on a wire rack .
Dust with icing sugar or ice with a butter and cream cheese icing ...
ICING ....
Process 100gm of softened butter / margarine with 100gm of cream cheese ,250 gm of icing sugar , 1 tsp of vanilla essence , a couple drops of coffee essence .
process till smooth
Spread over cooled cake .