Let Us Eat Cake!!! Tax Day Recession Cake
It’s April 15th!!! As Americans, we eat, sleep, sh*t and die… Oh yeah, and most importantly we pay our taxes. This past year has been a hard one and before you decide to join Michelle Malkin at one of her tea parties, calm down and think about making a cake instead.
During the WWII era, in order to their stretch rations, housewives used mayonnaise in their baking instead of eggs and butter/oil. Today, many housewives down South still observe this practice in much of their cake and cornbread baking because the end product is an amazingly moist, rich cake. In honor of tax day, I am listing this easy, fast and economic recipe. To cut down on cost (and calories), dust the cake with powdered sugar. I guarantee that this will be one incredibly moist and delicious chocolate cake…
2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/3 cup sugar
3/4 tsp. Baking soda
1/4 tsp. Salt
3/4 cup Dutch processed cocoa powder
3 oz. bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine
1.5 cup hot coffee
1 cup mayonnaise
1 large egg
1 Tbl Vanilla extract
Powdered sugar for dusting
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line the bottom of a 8 X 11 baking dish with parchment and grease the sides.
Place flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl, sift and set aside.
Place cocoa powder, chopped chocolate and hot coffee in a small bowl and whisk until chocolate has melted. Add mayonnaise whisk till smooth. Add egg and vanilla and whisk until egg is fully incorporated.
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir until batter is smooth. Pour batter into prepared dish and bake for 30- 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Allow cake to cool in dish completely. Invert onto a cookie sheet. Cut into squares and serve plain or dust with powdered sugar.
