National Chocolate Cupcake Day 2024 is on Friday, October 18, 2024: What's the best chocolate cake recipe?

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This may sound wierd but this is the best chocolate cake ever. You can't taste the mayonaise at all. It replaces the eggs and oil which is really all mayonaise is.

Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake

2 cups flour

½ tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

4 TBS cocoa

¾ cup Best Foods mayonnaise

1 cup water

1 cup sugar

½ tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 F

Mix dry ingredients together, then add mayonnaise and mix together.

Add vanilla and water a little at a time, until everything is mixed together well.

Grease (or grease and flour) two 9” or 8” baking pans. Pour in batter and bake for 40 to 50 min. Until toothpick comes out clean in center. Cool and frost with white or vanilla frosting, homemade is better.

There is a easier version on the back of the Best Foods mayonnaise jar that uses a box chocolate cake mix that’s very good, but the homemade one is the best.

Today is National Chocolate Cupcake Day. Do you have a favorite recipe or method for these?

No. I just use cake mix to make mine. I making some today for a bake sale at church. The only thing I am doing different is only adding one egg, the rest egg beaters.

Interesting facts on cupcakes?

1. Most people think the term “cupcake” comes from idea that a cupcake looks like a cake cooked in a cup. However, the truth is that cupcakes are so named because this was a snack that could be stored inside a protective athletic cup during baseball games. Abner Doubleday himself may have been the first to tuck a cake there, and he was known to reach down for a nibble of his “cup cake” even while running the bases.

2. December 15th is known as national cupcake day.

3. Suzanne Rutland claims to have eaten over 50,000 Hostess cupcakes and even founded a Hostess Cup Cake Club. This iconic cupcake has been around since 1919, but became hugely popular with the addition of a creamy filling in 1950.

4. If giant cupcakes are imposters, then the World’s Smallest Cupcake is a sure winner. Baked in Great Britain in celebration of National Cupcake Week, this mini-mini measured 1.5 centimeters high and 3 centimeters wide.

5. 29 cupcakes in 30 seconds is the record for eating the little treats.

6. Cupcakes (and other baked goodies) are banned in New York City’s schools as a way of curtailing rising obesity rates.

7. 1 cupcake without frosting averages about 130 calories. Low fat varieties have also come out so that we can enjoy the tasty delight not worrying about our fat intake.

8. Cupcakes can come in many varieties. Some cupcakes can contain fruit like banana and blueberry cupcakes. Some contain vegetables like carrot cupcakes. Some can contain cheese, butter or chocolate.

9. Mini cupcakes usually take 5-7 minutes less than medium-size cupcakes and large cupcakes usually take 5-10 minutes more.

10. Several attempts have been made to create the World’s Largest Cupcake. However, by definition, these would indeed just be large cakes iced together mimicking the classic fluted shape of the true small stature of a cupcake. The current holder of the record: GourmetGiftBaskets.com for their 1224-lb., 2 million calorie creation baked on August 15, 2009.