This recipe offends me because it’s fucking perfect and stupidly simple. I almost wish there was some secret, but there really isn’t much of one. It’s just Betty crocker and mayonnaise. That’s it. Go forth, make delicious chocolate cake, and be happy!
Ingredients
1 box Betty crocker devil’s food cake mix
1 cup cold water (tap cold is fine, you don’t need to bust out ice cubes or anything)
1 cup mayonnaise (yes, really)
3 eggs
2 pounds chocolate frosting to finish
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350. Grease two 9 inch round cake pans.
Dump everything except the frosting into a bowl and mix until combined. I used a stand mixer and mixed it on medium for three minutes, that seemed to be enough.
Distribute equally between the cake pans and pop them in the oven. Bake for 30 minutes. Start checking them at 25 minutes; if a knife or a toothpick can be inserted and come out clean, go ahead and remove them from the oven, regardless of how much time is left. I baked mine for the full half hour and they were a little over done, but a lot of that depends on your oven. If you have a shitty oven it might take a lot longer.
That being said: if they do end up a bit overdone, it’s not that big a deal, because the amount of frosting you’re going to use will make up for it.
Once they’re done, remove them from the oven and let cool for a few minutes, then flip them out onto wire racks to cool.
Once fully cooled, it’s time to slather them in frosting. Spread a layer of frosting over one of the cakes, then put the other on top of it and cover the whole thing in frosting. Use a heavy hand here, because you’ve got a lot of frosting to use. Pro tip: it will create a shell that keeps the cake from drying out until you go to serve it.
And that’s it. THAT’S FUCKING IT.
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