Mayonnaise makes an amazing chocolate cake! (And for the record, I was already doing this before Red Reddington said it was good)
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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I’m pretty sure I’ve tried cake made with mayo before. I don’t remember it being bad, so I’m sure I liked it. I’d be open to trying it again.
It’s SUPER rich and dense.
Heavy cream... milk and butter... Mayonaise... eggs, oil, and mustard... do people not look up ingredients at all?
they are both white, basically the same thing
All white ingredients are the same. That's why I use cocaine in place of salt in my recipes.
Chocolate is the same color as... nope. I can't finish that sentence.
That... is so much worse than what I've done.
I love mushroom soup. I love eggnog. One time making mushroom soup I was out of milk, so I thought to myself 'why not substitute eggnog?'
That combo created such an unholy liquid that's it's probably a staple food in hell that even the demons wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole if they were starved for a month. It was too foul for even the garbage so I had to dump it in the toilet and flush it three times to make sure it was gone.
Did you leave an angry comment on the recipe? Can you post a screenshot of it here?
Lol no, I did that back in the late 90's when I was a little bit dumber than I am now.
Oh boy, I tried substituting almond milk for milk in some cream sauce recipe back in my vegan days, except I forgot it was vanilla flavored and ho boy, it was very bad.
haha. I made vanilla Mac and cheese once the same way
Tbh, I don't mind vanilla soy milk Mac and cheese. My partner hates it, so I use powdered milk when cooking for both of us. (Neither of us uses enough cow milk to keep it fresh on hand)
Was it... already spiked?
Thankfully no. I needed the alcohol afterwards to wash that taste out of my mouth.
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Yeah, I'll just include fifty pages of permutations that people could try and bitch about when they fail, Sharon.
List every single ingredient not in the recipe just to be sure.
I only made 2 or 3 goofs like this in my early 20s until I learned that swapping stuff around is a FAFO activity. I will change up the amount of ingredients after a successful first recipe.
But like a Canadian Youtube mechanic once said ..... 'If you don't fuck around, how are you ever going to find out?"
I guess learning from other people's mistakes is off the table, eh?
He's not a very bright mechanic .... but he does get things to work ... most of the time
Goldwrenching?
More specifically, make sure you know WHY an ingredient is there and what it's providing before trying substitutes, because different substitutes work for different reasons.
It can work in a pinch to help maintain consistency, but it can effect the overall flavor, as it most likely did in this case.
Lordal my tea! I can’t imagine what would happen if you tried to make scones with mayo instead of heavy whipping cream…
It definitely depends on the recipe, but I have seen a handful of baked goods where they swap mayo in for heavy cream(in greatly reduced amounts) for more density and moisture.
Sometimes an odd-looking substitution works. Like instead of milk, I use cream cheese in my mashed potatoes. Makes a denser mash with a slight tang to it, goes great with things like a nice kielbasa or as part of a filling for perogies.
EDIT: I just can't fucking spell, and have no clue why my phone didn't catch "recipie".
I misread it
~~I have sympathy for this one. I can somewhat see how someone that didn't know better would think mayo would work as a substitute for cream, and they're recognising that the problem was down to their substitution rather than getting mad at the recipe author over it~~
I mean, I guess I could have had some sympathy, maybe just a little, until the "maybe mention that next time" quip. Like, no, amazingly enough, this is a recipe, I shouldn't have to explicitly remind you that you can't just substitute whatever random bullshit you have in your fridge just because it's the same color as the ingredient I told you about. That is not my problem, and I will absolutely not mention it next time or any time after that.
Oh shit I actually misread that "maybe mention that next time" part. I thought it just said "maybe next time", as in they'll try again another time. That changes the tone substantially
I can see mentioning it. Only because I think saying not to do it will cause it to happen far more than leaving it to every person who thinks cream and mayo are interchangeable to their own devices will
The Bob Mortimer gambit:"if they say 'dont do it' it means, someone has tried it. So it must work"
The two things are nothing alike in taste or texture, and really not even particularly close in color. Why would anyone think they could be substituted? Sour cream to either one of them I could maybe see an argument for
Miracle Whip works the best