Small Batch Chocolate Mayonnaise Cupcakes and Team Green No Longer!

ByBluebonnet Baker
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When you become pregnant, you learn all sorts of vernacular you might never have been privy to otherwise. For example, did you know that when parents choose not to find out the baby's gender via sonogram, they've officially joined Team Green?

Yeah, me neither. But, you learn something new every day.

The Brit and I were not graced with the patience nor the will to wait the full nine months to find out the gender of our upcoming offspring, so we found out this morning at approximately 8 a.m.

Boy or Girl, you ask?

For the answer to that, we have to bite into a cupcake.

This recipe is my grandfather's. Made many times, Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake is still my very favorite cake, and I can't wait for this little nugget to grow up eating it on special occasions.

James and I thought it would be neat to do a "gender reveal party" here on my blog, since the majority of the people we love and would have at such a party are far-flung all over the globe.

Not wanting to make a full two dozen cupcakes, I took a note out of Christina's book and reduced the recipe down to just 4 cupcakes. I can tell you right now, I will be making this revised recipe repeatedly. My favorite cake, anytime I want, without ever wasting a morsel or gorging myself silly. Perfection.

So, let's take that bite.

Coming October 2013: Baby Boy Bracegirdle! We're officially on the Blue Team!

Small Batch Chocolate Mayonnaise Cupcakes

Small Batch Chocolate Mayonnaise Cupcakes

Yield: 4 cupcakes
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 19 minutes
Total Time: 29 minutes

This small batch of Chocolate Mayonnaise Cupcakes makes just four sweet treats. Perfect for a weeknight dessert when the chocolate cravings won't quit.

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Ingredients

  • ½ cup plus 1 ½ teaspoons all purpose flour
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • 4 ½ teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ cup mayonnaise
  • ¼ cup medium roast coffee, cooled
  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

    1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
    2. In a small bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda. Whisk to combine, aerate, and break up any cocoa powder clumps.
    3. In a small measuring jug, combine mayonnaise, coffee, and vanilla. Stir until all are well combined and liquid-y.
    4. Add wet ingredients to the dry and stir until just combined.
    5. Line a 6 count muffin tin with 4 cupcake liners, leaving the middle two wells empty. Spray the tray and liners lightly with cooking spray. This keeps them from sticking to the cake.
    6. Using a large cookie scoop (mine is 3 tablespoons), place one scoop full of batter into each of the 4 lined wells.
    7. Bake for 19 minutes, or until when pierced with a toothpick, it comes out clean. Watch closely and do not overbake!
    8. Frost however you'd like - I used a simple jar of marshmallow fluff, tinted with gel food coloring, for the filling and frosting.

Notes

Adapted from Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake

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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 154Total Fat: 11gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 6mgSodium: 309mgCarbohydrates: 14gFiber: 0gSugar: 13gProtein: 1g

This nutritional information is just an estimate and not to be considered perfectly factual.

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© Amber Bracegirdle
Category: Cupcakes

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  2. My Mom made this cake ALL THE TIME when i was little! then she lost the recipe.... Thank you.... thank you.... thank you!! Iused to improvise and use a dark chocolate cake mix and used 1 cup mayo, 1cup water 3 eggs.. now i can make it from scratch woo hooo
    Congratulations on your little boy! so fun

    1. Colleen, this made me smile. It was my grandfather's favorite cake (a depression era staple, is my understanding), and I'm so happy you have the true recipe again! I imagine your improvised version was pretty darn good, but probably the eggs changed the taste a bit? The original recipe only uses the eggs that are in the mayonnaise. Thank you for the congratulations, we're super excited!

    1. Thank you, rhyming Shaina! Think Magnus can help him with his British accent? Between him and James, I think we could manage to get this kid growing up with one.

  4. A little boy. How wonderful. Can we go ahead and just arrange the marriage now between him and Libby?

  5. That is awesome!!! You are going to love being a mommy to a little man... he is going to dote on you and cherish you! And I have a little inkling the feeling will be mutual~! 🙂

    1. Thank you so much, Amanda. I hope Miss Olivia is doing well, and that you are too. The feeling will definitely be mutual!

  6. Awwww - I am so so so happy for you!! Baby boys are pretty darn great! Congratulations!

    1. Thank you, Kristen! You know how long we've waited for this, and we're beyond thrilled. Can't wait for you to meet him!

    1. Thank you, Marisa. Hope everything's getting better down there in Center City. Saw your tweets yesterday, and then the news. I love Philadelphia, history comes alive for me there. Made my heart hurt to see that collapse.

  8. Aaaah! Congratulations! So excited for you both. And I can't wait to see all the blue-themed things that inevitably result. 😀

    1. Thank you so much, Gail. You ready to be an auntie to this little one? J and Mitzi too!

  10. Yay! So excited for y'all. Congratulations, I am partial to boys, they are so much fun!

    1. Thank you, Tracy. You know how much this means to us, and your well wishes mean everything too.

  12. Thrilled!!!!

    What an adorable way to share the exciting news. I'm so happy for you both!! Much love. xox

    1. Thank you, Aimee! We can't wait to bring the little man up to Montreal to meet your trio and bask in Montreal culture.

    1. Yay! I hope I made you proud. I was sooooo happy to see these cupcakes turn out right. They're no different than if I'd made a full batch. Hooray!

  15. Yay! Now you can get all of our hand-me-downs 😉

    (I have never been so antsy for a cupcake post.)

    1. Woot! I think Chellee has boxes and boxes too. This kid is going to be well dressed!

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