# My favorite cake

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-cake/123326>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 10, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-cake/123326 "2002-08-10T22:12:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-cake/123326/41 "2002-08-15T13:45:24Z")

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My very favorite cake is a Mayonnaise cake–yes, that’s right, cake made with mayo! 🙂 It’s a chocolate/cocoa batter, with mayo replacing the eggs/oil in the batter. In fact, I made one this past weekend, and it was delicious. I frost it with a mocha frosting. All from scratch, naturally.

My grandmother used to make this cake when I was a young girl; I have not been able to find the original recipe she used, although I’ve been told that it’s in a Hershey cookbook. I use a recipe cobbled off of several found in the 'net. It seems to work for me. The cake is very tasty, but also very rich. 🙂

~~tarragon~~

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