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His Portillo’s knockoff recipe is below. Preheat the oven to 350F. Butter 2 round cake pans (9-inch ones) and line with parchment paper. Mix together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, coffee and salt in a bowl. Set aside. Add the eggs, mayonnaise, sugar, water and vanilla into the flour mixture.
Portillo’s is a restaurant famous for hot dogs and Italian beef, but what you may not know is they serve a very popular chocolate cake. In fact, the Portillo’s chocolate cake is so well-loved there’s a copycat recipe for it. The Portillo’s chocolate cake copycat is a ridiculously easy mayonnaise cake.
First up was the real life Portillo’s Chocolate Cake. The Portillo’s frosting did indeed taste like Betty Crocker Rich and Creamy Chocolate. As a frosting lover who will eat it in just about any form, the lazy side of me was glad I didn’t have to try to duplicate it with a scratch clone.
Portillo’s is a Chicago area icon, a restaurant known for their hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches, long lines of cars in their drive thru, AND chocolate cake!
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