Chocolate Velvet Cake with Crunchy Coconut Topping

When I had a fiasco with my cupcakes, I searched and found a wealth of knowledge available over the world wide web to remedy this. This recipe validates one tip~adding mayonnaise to the batter. I found this rich chocolate velvet cake recipe on a late 1970’s magazine clipping of a Best Foods’ advertisement. The mayonnaise in the batter, indeed, resulted to the moistest, softest cake I’ve ever tasted!

Makes 15 Servings

Ingredients

2 1/4 cups unsifted flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 2/3 cup granulated sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup mayonnaise
4 squares (1 oz ea) unsweetened chocolate, melted
1 1/3 cup water
crunchy coconut topping

Procedure

Grease and flour a 13″x9″x2″ baking pan.

In a bowl, stir flour, baking soda and baking powder. Set aside.

In a large bowl, using a mixer at high speed, beat sugar, eggs and vanilla extract until fluffy, around 3 minutes.

Reduce speed to low, beat in mayonnaise and melted chocolate.

At low speed, add flour mixture in 4 additions alternately with water, beating until just blended after each addition.

Pour into pan and bake in oven at 350 F for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Cool completely. Top with crunchy coconut topping.

Crunchy Coconut Topping

1 cup milk
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 cup coconut flakes
1 cup chopped walnuts

In a saucepan, stirring constantly, bring brown sugar and butter to boil over medium heat, around 2 minutes.

Add milk, coconut flakes and chopped walnuts. Boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly.

Spread thinly on a baking pan and broil 6 inches from heat until golden brown, around 3 minutes.

Cool and layer on top of cooled cake.

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Written by Lalaine · Filed Under From the Oven

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4 Responses to “Chocolate Velvet Cake with Crunchy Coconut Topping”

Cherry on July 9th, 2008 6:34 pm

Hi Lalaine!
Kumusta? I was hankering for a good cassava cake recipe and found it!!! Thank you for this website, can’t wait to try the recipe this weekend. I’m a foodie like yourself and love to cook and bake. I found tons of recipes from this site that I would like to make.You have done a good job,and more power to you.

God bless,
Cherry
Lalaine on July 10th, 2008 5:22 am

Thanks! Have fun baking the cassava this weekend!
FamilyFirst on November 17th, 2008 9:51 am

this is the first time i came across a cake recipe with mayo .. sounds exciting. will give it a try one weekend!
Lalaine on November 19th, 2008 12:27 am

Hi! Mayo really does a good trick. I guess it’s all the egg and oils in it that helps.