South Of The Border Chocolate Cake
From kitchenscientist 15 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 12
I saw a card that said, "I once tried a desert called 'Death by Chocolate'...it only made me stronger." This cake always reminds me of that card. The cinnamon gives it a Mexican flair, the espresso makes it rich and grown-up, and the mayo makes it so moist.
Ingredients
- For cake: 1 2/3 C sugar shopping list
- 3 eggs shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla shopping list
- 1 tsp cinnamon shopping list
- 2 C all-purpose or cake flour, sifted shopping list
- 2/3 C unsweetened cocoa powder – the best you can find shopping list
- 1 ¼ tsp baking soda shopping list
- ¼ tsp baking powder shopping list
- 1 C mayonnaise shopping list
- 1 ½ C water shopping list
- For sauce: 1 C half-and-half or heavy whipping cream shopping list
- ½ C sugar shopping list
- ¼ C unsweetened cocoa powder – the best you can find shopping list
- 3 T unsalted butter shopping list
- 1 tsp instant espresso powder shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla shopping list
- ½ tsp cinnamon shopping list
How to make it
- For cake: Preheat oven to 350F and grease and flour a bundt cake pan.
- Beat sugar, eggs and vanilla until creamy.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together mayonnaise and water.
- Sift dry ingredients together and add to egg mixture alternately with mayonnaise mixture.
- Pour into greased and floured bundt pan and bake at 350F for 30 minutes.
- Cool only slightly before turning out onto rack to finish cooling.
- For sauce: Combine cream, sugar, cocoa, butter, cinnamon and espresso in a small heavy saucepan.
- Whisk over low heat until sugar dissolves and butter is completely melted.
- Increase heat to medium and whisk until sauce just begins to simmer.
- Remove from heat and mix in vanilla.
- Cool to thick but pourable before pouring over cake.
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Let's see. Chocolate, whipped cream, cocoa, I can't go on. 2 lbs gain for me and a 5 for you.
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south of the border sounds better than death by choc. any day high5 delicous post
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