Waldorf Astoria Hundred-dollar Chocolate Cake

We found this in Dan's family cookbook (it's his mother's recipe)and made it for his birthday. Totally awesome y'all.

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
  
• 1.5 tsp baking powder
• 1.5 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 cup cold water
• 1 cup mayonnaise
  
• 2 tsp vanilla.

Preheat oven to 350. Sift together all the dry ingredients. Add the wet ingredients. Make sure the cocoa chunks are mostly dissolved. We used a square Pyrex baking dish (8x8).
Bake for 45 minutes (original recipe says 35 but it took us way longer -- maybe our oven runs cold?).
Top with buttercream-cheese frosting.

Thoughts: This is super easy. It literally could not be easier. And it's really moist (maybe it's the mayonnaise?). I don't usually like chocolate cake because it gets so dry, but this one did not. On the other hand, it was sort of crumbly. But who cares?

Disaster Index: 1/10