Chocolate Cake

[Glaikityin]

Does anyone have a recipe for Jewish Chocolate Cake? I was given a copy years ago but it is now lost and the provider has lost her copy too. It`s a very rich, moist cake and I seem to recall that it didn`t use butter or margarine but mayonnaise instead. I used to split it, fill with black cherries and serve with cream. I could just enjoy some right now with my cuppa. If someone has the recipe they`ll make two ladies very happy if they give us a copy.

[ethandron]

i have a recipe for blue peter easter cake from years ago which uses a jar of mayo instead of butter or marg if that's any good.

10 oz. sr flour
8 oz. sugar
1 and a half tsps. baking powder
7 oz. jar mayo
4 tblspns. cocoa
8 fl. oz. hot water
1 tsp. vanilla essence

mix flour, sugar, baking powder and mayo until 'crummy'. dissolve cocoa and vanilla essence in hot water, add to flour, etc., and stir well. pour into a 7" lined tine and bake for 1 hour at gas mk. 4.

i used to cover it in chocolate icing and put mini eggs on top, but splitting it and filling with cherrries and cream sounds much better.

[Glaikityin]

This sounds like the one! Off to shops now to buy the ingredients as I haven`t baked for years. Thanks for your very prompt reply, isn`t technology fantastic. I`m new to this computer stuff but must be getting the hang of it as I haven`t asked my son for days to help me. Now if I can just get in to my Emails!

[ethandron]

i know what you mean, i was late coming to all this technology myself and used to be frightened of using the computer in case i deleted something or broke something. google is almost my best friend now and i would say i ask it something half a dozen times a day. sites like this are great too, someone almost always knows the answer or at least gives a well-informed opinion. hope the cake turns out - literally! - well.

[scotgal]

You might be a "glaikityin" but that recipe sounds so fabby I'll give it a go. Just one question though, where does your name come from?

[Glaikityin]

Tried to think of something catchy for user name. I`m originally from Scotland and glaikit means stupid or foolish, something I`ve often called myself when I solve the clue ( after a lot of searching ) or see the answer in the next weeks paper. Recently gone on the internet so getting used to the sites. This should really be in ChatterBank so please forgive this Silver Surfer, I`m just a beginner.Hope you enjoy the cake, not made mine yet as too many goodies in the cupboard to eat first! TTFN from one Scots gal to another scotgal!