Grandma's Vintage Recipes

This blog is for the posting of Vintage Recipes. I have inherited recipes from both my grandmothers, mother, aunts, etc over the years. I am also a cookbook collector with several old cookbooks in my possession. My goal here is to share with you older recipes that have been lost to many. I hope you will enjoy my blogs and some old memories will be revived by some of the recipes. Note:To save the vintage value of these recipes, I make no changes. You see the original recipe as written.

Thursday, May 4, 2017

HELLMAN'S MAYONNAISE CAKE

Love mayonnaise cake. My grandmother gave me the recipe when I got married in 1966. Baked it often for our air force friends.

3 cups unsifted flour

1 1/2 cups sugar

1/3 cup cocoa

2 1/4 tsp baking powder

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 cups Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise

1 1/2 cups water

1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Grease 2 (9 x 1 1/2-inch) layer pans (note- I use a 9 x 13 pan); line bottoms with waxed paper.

Sift together dry ingredients into large bowl. Stir in Real Mayonnaise. Gradually stir in water and vanilla until smooth and blended. Pour into prepared pans. Bake in 350 (moderate) oven about 30 minutes or until cake springs back when touched. Cool "Remove from pans.

1 comment:

HLRussell said...: I want to try this, I assume the mayonnaise substitutes for the egg as well as the butter. There are no nutritional values here but it may actually be better than a traditional chocolate cake in terms of fat and calories, especially if I use zero calorie sugar. Thanks for posting!; September 18, 2024 at 3:19 PM