This rich, moist Double Chocolate Cake is the best chocolate cake recipe you’ll ever try—made with a genius 1940s twist! It uses mayo instead of eggs for the softest, fudgiest texture, and the old-fashioned chocolate frosting takes it over the top. Perfect for chocolate lovers and incredibly easy to make! With just 5 minutes prep time and then baking, you can be enjoying it in under an hour!
The BEST Chocolate Cake Recipes!
This rich and moist Double Chocolate Cake recipe is truly the BEST chocolate cake recipe—and it comes with a surprising (and genius) twist! Adapted from a clever 1940s wartime recipe, this cake uses mayonnaise instead of eggs, creating an incredibly soft and delicious texture that chocolate lovers will go crazy for. Back during World War II, when ingredients like eggs were hard to come by, home cooks got creative—and this cake is one of those brilliant solutions that’s stood the test of time.
With just a few pantry staples and a few minutes of mixing, you’ll have a decadent chocolate cake that’s perfect for birthdays, potlucks, or anytime you need a quick dessert. Topped with a rich, old-fashioned chocolate frosting that soaks into the cake, every bite is pure chocolatey bliss. If you’ve never tried mayonnaise in cake before, don’t worry—you’d never guess it’s in there. All you’ll taste is moist, fudgy, homemade goodness!
These chocolate cake recipes are from Volume 1 of our cookbook:
(The first recipe is called Sinful Double Chocolate Cake in the book.)
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This chocolate oatmeal cake recipe is one of the BEST chocolate cake recipes! It makes a rich and delicious chocolate cake your chocolate lovers are sure to love! You can find this recipe in volume 1 of our cookbook.
this is a fabulous cake, my friends think I’m crazy when I mention mayo so I don’t tell anyone it’s in there. I personally use a little more cocoa powder. a tip on buying mayo, it’s one of only a few things I’m brand loyal about, I always by on sale for 1.99, and always buy the 30 oz jar. you lose a whole cup when you buy the squeeze bottle, it’s only 22 ounces.
I read your newsletter on my phone. I dont want to use up my data watching videos .please write out recipes.
You can go to our web site where we have most of the recipes written out.
Sorry to laugh, but these fabulous people are sharing all their knowledge with us and you’re complaining about data.? If you follow the great info you find here you can get more data. Just sayin’. I’ve cut my groceries by way more than half. My mortgage will be paid off in only 10 months. My cleaning supplies are made for mere pennies. I am paralyzed in a wheelchair and cannot walk, so I’m on a limited income. With the money they have showed me how to save, I live better than before I was wheelchair bound. Thank you Jill, Tawra and Mike!
Oh my Karen, you just made my morning. Had to send your comment to Tawra and Mike so they could see it too. I know we can get some real nasty comments sometimes but most of our viewers are off the charts with being so kind and thoughtful. It makes doing what we do so exciting to see when you guys are doing such a great job – almost like proud parents. : ) 🙂 Sending you a big thumbs up and pat on the back for all the hard work you have done. Thank you again so much.
I appreciate the no egg recipe. The price of eggs have shot up near me. I pay the same price for 18 that I was paying for 60 only a few months ago.
Thank you for taking the time to share.
Good Recipe. Will do and and chilled a day for my weekend.
I made this double chocolate cake and it was a fabulous recipe! I love your videos and watch them daily. Thank you for all you do! You all feel like family.
Thank you so much Barbara. I am so glad you liked the cake – of course with me anything that has chocolate in it I will eat- : ) : ) Also our viewers feel like family to us too. We are so blessed to have some of the sweetest and thoughtful viewers so thank you for that.
I love this cake. It has such good flavor and texture. It is my “go to” recipe for chocolate cake.
Thank you for letting us know Brenda. So glad you like it.
Hello, I was wondering if the double chocolate cake would work a a round layer cake, because of the frosting? Thank you for all you do for us. Susie
You are so welcome Susie and yes you can do it in round pans.
I have made some recipes to, easy ones because i can’t stand long so every recipe must be easy for me.
I am disabled head to toe, Not in wheel chair yet.
I found a recipe almost like this one but instead of mayo, vinegar was used…called a wacky depression cake…no eggs, no milk used.
Thanks so much for recipes…this choc cake i want to make for when i am craving choc. and a glass of ice cold milk.
I’m a excited to try the oatmeal chocolate cake and see if it like one my great grandma made. She made a bunch of these chocolate oatmeal cakes in the late 70’s or very early 1980’s. So here’s a little story for you. I was pretty young, but I still remember it very clearly. 🙂
My great-grandma was complaining about the cost of oatmeal at the store so she decided that she would try raising oats and have great-grandpa roll them for her because they still had their mill out in the barn. Well all went well and her “oat garden” made a bumper crop. By the time great-grandpa got all of her oats rolled, she had about 10 – 12 50-pound feed bags lined up on the porch full of rolled oat. Great-grandma just spit and spluttered about what in the world was she going to do with that many rolled oats. Great-grandpa just stood there and grinned. Every family household got a 50 pound bag of oatmeal for Christmas that year. Great-grandpa grinned all through Christmas.
Needless to say, I remember all of the oat things made really well. I can’t remember how long it took for my mom to get her bag of oats used up, but I remember her saying it was sure a good thing she had a very large deep freeze. Ha ha! Thanks again for this recipe. I can’t wait to try it!
That was a cute story Brenda. Too funny. I can just imagine everyone bringing an “oat” dish of some sort to every family get together for a long time. LOL
I’m so happy to see you publish the mayonnaise cake recipe. My mom made it all the time and Ii couldn’t find her handwritten card! Made me smile to remember her making it “from scratch” for my Dad! Thanks so much!
That recipe has been around for a very long time Donna. I got that in the 70’s from a sweet older neighbor (who was quite a character and had had 7 husbands) and she had had the recipe for many years herself.
When I married in 1966, I was a stay at home wife. We only had one car and only shopped for groceries twice a month when my husband got paid. I made this cake because it did not need eggs. It was called the Chocolate Mayo Cake back then. I got it in Home Ec class in high school. Always moist and delicious. We ate it at least once a month. Thanks for posting.
Sounds amazing, in need of chocolate right now. My father passed away Saturday six months ago my sister passed away, yep need some comfort chocolate. Thanks for the recipe. You all awesome and continue to be my favorite place to turn to for just about everything. God Bless you all.
Oh Marilyn I am so sorry to hear about your father and sister. That is so hard. You most certainly do need some comfort food – I say eat the whole cake by yourself. : ) And thank you so much for you sweet kind words. You hang in there now.
I never use margarine, so is it okay to use butter instead? I’ll buy some margarine if necessary, though. My daughter is going to LOVE this cake!
For something like this you can use butter.
Do you use regular sugar or powder sugar for the chocolate cake?
I have was told in school back in the 1960’s to use powder sugar for icing..
For regular powdered sugar frosting you do use powdered sugar and that is most common but this recipe is a “boiled” frosting and so you use regular sugar in it. What makes this frosting special is that it is like pouring fudge all over the top of it.
People don’t realize that mayonnaise is just eggs and oil. No one flinches when eggs and oil (or butter or shortening) are listed in the ingredients!
I just made your cake and couldn’t wait till cooled to cut into it! Love the frosting, too, so easy! Yummy n so delicious! I put 1/2 cup sugar n made up the rest of the cup w stevia equivalent n still came out beautiful! The cake just melts in your mouth and so moist! Definitely makes my day when I find a keeper! Will be making it often! Thank you so much!