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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68 Comments

  1. Congratulations! I had guessed boy before I saw inside the cupcake. Maybe he'll be born on my birthday! You have great recipes. Thanks!

    1. Thank you so much for your sweet words! When's your birthday? If born on time, this kid will share two other family members' birthdays too, and that was completely by accident. I really appreciate you taking the time to comment, so thank you again.

  2. What a wonderful reveal!!! Congrats on Baby Boy!! Can't wait to meet him. And these cupcakes sounds fantastic. I love chocolate mayonnaise cake!

    1. Thank you so much, Kate. I can't wait for you to meet him too! We'll have to hang out more once I'm doing the mom thing full time. 🙂

  3. Congrats! I was wondering if you were expecting when you posted about setting up a nursery. Happy for the both of you.

    1. Thanks, Bonnie! You must have missed my earlier post about being pregnant. But yup, we're on to painting the nursery. We've even picked out a name, though I'm not sure we're sharing just yet. 🙂

  5. YAY! What a GREAT reveal! I couldn't wait either and I'm glad I didn't. Can't wait to show Nate when he wakes up, I know he'll be so happy for you both. Between you and Mel I'm having baby fever...okay not really I'm so done but I do LOVE newborns...they smell wonderful, lol! Okay I admit that's weird but it is what it is;)

    1. Thanks so much, Jenny! I love newborns and how they smell too. I know exactly what you mean. Nate will tell you, I worked in a day care and as a nanny all through high school, and I can't wait to have my own baby to smell. 😉

  6. How wonderful! and what a marvelous essay and a great looking cake too! Congrats!

    1. Thank you so much for your kind words, Margot. The cake recipe above is near and dear to my heart, and I hope that comes across.

  7. Congrats! I guessed it was going to be blue inside and I'm so happy for you both. I can't wait to "meet" the little guy!

    1. I kind of knew it too, Kathryn, though James refused to commit to either gender early on. We'll hopefully be over in the UK in the new year to take the baby to visit James's granddad, so maybe we can meet up and you can meet him in person!

  8. Yay! Congratulations!! It's so fun to find out what your little person is going to be. 🙂 I'm not in the waiting camp either. 😉

    1. Thanks, Windy. So glad I'm not alone in that. I could never wait the whole 9 months! I'm too much of a planner.

  9. Congrats, Amber!! So exciting. Now the real planning can begin (which is the fun part!)... Maddie will be so excited to have a little baby boyfriend. 🙂

    1. Thank you so much, Jen! We're excited that Maddie's excited - though she may have to fight Libby for the little man's affections. 😉

      1. Ha! I see a baby love triangle in their future... They can have their own baby reality show. 🙂

    1. Amanda, I will be bugging you and Miss almost exclusively. With 7 boys between you, you two will be my gurus!

    1. Thank you so much, Mimi. They are delicious. I totally had another one for breakfast this morning. 😉

  14. Yay, congratulations Amber! And what a cute (and delicious) way to reveal!! Team Blue!!

    1. Thank you, Hayley! We were trying to be fair to both sides of the pond, and this seemed to be the best way to go.

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