Ever baked a chocolate cake but found it too dry? Or maybe you just feel like you can never get quite as good as you’d like. Well, this could be the answer.
A chef from Kansas City, Jasper J Mirabile Jnr, is claiming that the secret ingredient for creating the ultimate chocolate cake is… mayonnaise.
We know what you’re thinking, what madness is this?!
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But he explains in his recent column for the
Kansas City Star that it was traditionally used as a substitute for oil and works best because it balances out the sugar whilst stopping the cake from becoming dry.
He wrote: "My father thought [the cakes] were a little too dry [so] my mother suggested using mayonnaise because she had seen the recipe in a cookbook and in an ad for Hellmann's Mayonnaise in a magazine."
Jasper J Mirabile Jnr runs an Italian restaurant which is apparently known for its delicious and moist chocolate cakes.
Check out his recipe here. For more chocolate-based recipes, click here. 
