Dessert Time Again

Today’s suggested Ultimate Blog Challenge topic is dessert time again and you know I’m going to take that suggestion! I have two great cakes that I like. One is my Easter Bunny cake and the other is my grandmother’s recipe for Chocolate Mayonnaise cake!

Easter Bunny Cake

This is made with a package of white cake mix, that simple! After mixing it with the ingredients, take a cup of the batter out. Take two small bowls and add 1/2 cup in each, add blue food coloring to one and pink to the other and mix each color with the batter. Pour the white batter in a 9″ x 13″ cake pan and added the blue and pink on top of the white cake batter. Next I took a knife a swirled the two colors together.

After the cook cooled, I frosted it with fluffly white merinque frosting and topped with coconut with green food coloring. Add some jelly beans and peeps on the top and little bunnies along the front edge for an adorable Easter Bunny cake! When you cut the cake, it has all three colors and it’s oh so good!

Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake

While the Easter Buny cake is delicious and cute, I would have to say the chocolate mayonnaise cake that my grandmother made when I was a child is by far my favorite! I remember when Nanny would give me a piece of her chocolate mayonnaise cake for breakfast before school. My mom would tell her that’s not a good breakfast but Nanny would quickly answer her and say it was just as good as eggs and chocolate milk because mayonnaise was made with eggs!

Cake recipe

CHOCOLATE MAYONNAISE CAKE

1 cup water

1 cup mayonnaise

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

3 tablespoons baking cocoa

2 teaspoons baking soda

Blend the water, mayonnaise and vanilla in a bowl until mixed well.  Gradually add the flour, sugar, cocoa, and baking soda into the mayo mixture until well blended.

Pour into a greased 11″ x 7″ pan and bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until a cake tester or toothpick comes out clean after inserting in the center of the cake.

The chocolate mayonnaise cake is so rich and moist. Of course the white fluffy frosting comes in a close tie with the cake itself! I love coconut and my grandmother always added that to the top so I do too! The platter the cake is on belonged to my grandmother also. When I make this cake it brings back so many wonderful memories of times I spent with my grandmother and the platter adds to the memories. Since Lia loves baking so much, I plan to pass the cake platter on to her.

Frosting recipe

WHITE FLUFFY FROSTING

1 cup granulated sugar

1/3 cup water

1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

2 egg whites

1 1/2 teaspoons almond flavoring

Add the sugar, water and cream of tarter together and cook over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved and it starts to boil.

Beat the egg whites and almond flavoring together until it forms soft peaks.  Slowly pour the sugar mixture into the egg whites beating on high speed until it forms stiff peaks.

Frost your cooled cake and sprinkle coconut over the top.

So there you have it, dessert time again! Take your choice, would you like the white cake with blue and pink swirls or the moist and rich chocolate mayonnaise cake? No problem if you can’t decide, you could make them both!