The Best Easy Chocolate Cake
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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2009
This easy wartime cake made with mayonnaise had a lot of good things going for it. Chocolate flavor wasn’t one of them.
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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS
We wanted an easy chocolate mayonnaise cake recipe that would deliver good chocolate flavor. To get there, we “bloomed” unsweetened cocoa powder in coffee to intensify its flavor and supplemented it with bittersweet chocolate. Although trad...