Hundred Dollar Cake With Buttercream Icing
Recipe: #15457
November 01, 2014
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Baby Shower, Birthday, Brunch Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Flour, Chocolate, Butter/Margarine, more
"A very moist chocolate cake due to the mayonnaise base, with a very rich frosting. The name of the cake comes from the story that somebody (I think around the turn of the last century) supposedly paid $100 to a restaurant in Chicago for the recipe--equivalent to paying several thousand dollars today. The story is widely known but I don't know whether it's fact or fiction. I myself don't like chocolate, so when I have to make a dessert and don't want to be "tempted" I like to make something chocolate. Therefore I haven't eaten it myself. However, a number of people I've served it to have asked for the recipe so I feel confident that it's quite good."
Original is 12 servings
Ingredients
- BUTTERCREAM ICING
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (138.5 g)
- Calories 436.6
- Total Fat - 21.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 7.5 g
- Cholesterol - 27.6 mg
- Sodium - 412.7 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 58.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1 g
- Sugars - 35.2 g
- Protein - 3.7 g
- Calcium - 61.3 mg
- Iron - 1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Sift together twice the 2 cups flour, sugar, cocoa, baing powder and baking soda (just once if using pre-sifted flour).
Step 2
Add the cold water, mayonnaise and vanilla and blend well.
Step 3
Pour into two greased and floured 8" round layer cake pans.
Step 4
Bake at 350° 25-35 minutes
Step 5
Let cool.
Step 6
Make the icing: Cook the flour with the milk, stirring constantly until very thick and smooth.
Step 7
Allow to cool slightly.
Step 8
Blend the butter, shortening and salt together.
Step 9
When the milk mixture has cooled, add it to the butter mixture and beat at high speed 10 minutes.
Step 10
Use to frost cake.
Tips
No special items needed.
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