Mocha Cake with Fluffy Meringue Topping

This cake has been around forever, my grandmother used to make "Chocolate mayonnaise cake"  and she was born in 1918.  The chocolate chips and the "topping" are not original. The original also has cake flour. *I much prefer the orig. recipe.  Has a much finer crumb and is very moist. And the chocolate flavor is amazing.  The slight twist here is ok. But not as good as the original.

Really good and easy to make, though I didn't bother with the meringue. Instead I used a bit of whipped topping with the syrup as our family isn't big on meringue. They couldn't believe it had mayo in it!

Really good cake, moist, very chocolatey. My kids devoured it. I used Kraft Mayo with olive oil and it turned out fine. If you didn't want to mess with the topping you could just put a dollop of light whipped cream on top.

The pros: cake tasted good The cons: the top of the "cake" (was more like a brownie) separated from the rest, it sunk, the meringue didn't work at all (I halved the recipe, I don't know if that makes a difference...), and the chocolate chips all seemed to sink to the bottom

This was a very moist, tasty cake. I didn't make the fluffy topping and it was still excellent.