Monday, February 15, 2010

Nothing Bundt Good Cake

I hope all of you had a wonderful Valentines Day!
Saturday night my bf and I made dinner instead of going out and he was in charge of the main dish while I was responsible for dessert. Now usually I probably would've pulled out some slice and bake cookies and call it a day but I decided to put a little extra effort into it and actually bake something. A chocolate bundt cake that is. I'm not much a baker or really a cook for that matter but it wasn't too bad. With a little help from my roommate and her bf, it came together pretty well. Now I've decided to share the recipe with you! Even if you don't like chocolate cake, like me, I think you will like this because it's not made with chocolate cake mix... see below:

MAMA'S CHOCOLATE CHIP CAKE
Ingredients:
1 box Duncan Hines yellow cake mix

1 cup oil (Canola or vegetable, not olive)

4 eggs

1 small box instant chocolate pudding (make sure it's the instant kind)

1 pint sour cream

1 6 oz.pkg. semi-choc. chips

Instructions:
preheat oven to 350 degrees

Grease your bundt pan with margarine (make sure you grease into the 'valleys' of the bundt pan creases otherwise the cake will stick there and not come out easily)

Combine all ingredients except chips. Layer batter with chips in your bundt pan.

Bake about 45 minutes. The top of the cake will start to 'crack' into little sections as it bakes- if those little valleys still look too cake-battery after 45 minutes of baking,
it's not quite finished. You want those areas to look fairly set. (The middle of my cake didn't finish baking all the way so I probably needed to have put it back in the oven another 5-10 min).

Let cool for 20 minutes or so and then place a plate on pan and turn upside down to dislodge cake. You may need to take a knife and gently
slide it down and around cake sides to help it dislodge when you turn it upside down.

Voila!


Enjoy!

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