THE BEST CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE EVER!

By carvalhohm2

Ingredients

• 1 box Devil’s Food cake mix
• 1 small pkg Jello instant chocolate pudding mix
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups mini chocolate chips
• crushed Skor Candy Bars

Details

Adapted from chef-in-training.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 F.

In large bowl, mix together everything except for chocolate chips. The batter will be thick.Stir in chocolate chips.

Pour batter into two 9-inch cake pans. (You could use whatever cake pan you choose. Just follow cooking time and temperature on the back of the Devil’s Food box and add about 10 additional minutes to whatever the original cooking time requires.) Make sure to do the toothpick test to check if it is done or not. It usually takes about 45 minutes for two 9-inch cake pans.After cake is baked, let cool completely. I usually plop the two cakes onto a wire rack and stick them in the freezer. It is so much easier to cut them when they are a little frozen and they don’t crumble as much. Once cakes have cooled completely (or are slightly frozen if doing my method) cut in half width wise so you have 4 equal circles.

While cake is cooling prepare the frosting.

BEST CHOCOLATE FROSTING
2/3 cup milk
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chocolate syrup
4 tsp Postum or instant coffee granules
2 Tbsp boiling water
8 cups powdered sugar
1 cup cocoa
1 cup butter

Dissolve Postum in boiling water.

Mix milk, vanilla, chocolate syrup, and dissolved Postum together
In a large separate bowl, beat softened butter, powdered sugar, and cocoa together.

Slowly add in wet ingredients until you reach desired consistency.
Beat an additional 5 minutes to get a fluffy consistency.

*NOTE* I don’t drink coffee so I used Postum, but the Postum can easily be substituted for instant coffee.

To start the frosting process, a helpful hint my mom taught me is to put a little glob of frosting on the cake stand so that the base cake stays put. After the base cake is in place, frost the top of it generously. Place the second layer cake on top. Frost the top of it generously. Repeat until the fourth layer is placed on top. Then frost all around the cake carefully to keep layers from shifting.

Press some crushed Skor Candy Bars onto the sides of the cake. You can also drizzle the top with melted chocolate chips for an added look of beauty.