Your Chocolate Cake Is Missing One Ingredient

By Bigger Bolder Baking · 90 min

Ingredients

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Butter and line two 8-inch (20 cm) round cake pans with parchment.
2. In a medium bowl, mix the flour and baking soda.
3. In a large bowl, whisk the hot water with the cocoa powder and let stand 5 minutes.
4. Stir in the mayonnaise, sugar, vanilla and salt until smooth.
5. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet mixture until just combined.
6. Divide the batter evenly between the pans and smooth the tops.
7. Bake 35-40 minutes, until the cakes spring back lightly and a skewer in the centre comes out clean.
8. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
9. Level the cooled layers with a large serrated knife.
10. Make the Best Ever Chocolate Buttercream following its recipe.
11. Set one layer on a serving plate and spread about ¾ cup (6 oz/170 g) of frosting evenly over it.
12. Top with the second layer and frost the top and sides with the remaining frosting.

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