In the past, we just grabbed something from the local grocery store, but as my love for cooking grows, and with it my knowledge, I find great joy in being the one to bake this special treat for my family. I think this statement says it quite well...
So I started scouring Pinterest for the perfect recipe. My husband is a huge chocolate lover. We tend to blame it on his mother's love of chocolate milk while he was in utero. ;)
Because of this, I'm always on the hunt for the perfect chocolate something. In my search, I stumbled across a basic recipe for a dense, gooey chocolate cake, which is right up my alley.
Of course, I couldn't leave well enough alone, so I used it as a guide to whip it into my own creation.
It is such an easy recipe and turned out pretty slammin' if I do say so myself. It was definitely a show stopper. I hope it becomes a recipe you are brave enough to try and strong enough to resist eating the whole thing. (Truth? I almost ate a slice for breakfast this morning) :)
P.S. If dark chocolate is something that scares you or you don't love, it may be because you haven't had good dark chocolate. Bad dark is very bitter and bland. Good dark is smooth, not bitter and delicious. It's like, fancy pants chocolate that happens to be full of antioxidants and good stuff for your body. Practically a health food if you ask me. ;)
Ultimate Dark Chocolate Cake
with Velata Dark Chocolate Fudge Sauce
Shopping List:
1 box of dark chocolate cake mix
1 small package of instant chocolate pudding mix
2 cups sour cream
3 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
(TIP- if you're out of vegetable oil, you can substitute for equal amounts of butter)
1/2 cup water (or cold coffee if you want a mocha flavor)
1 bag of Velata Dark Chocolate- chopped into pieces (the food processor is a gem here!)
Fudge sauce ingredients:
1 bag of Velata Dark Chocolate
1/3 cup of melted butter
3/4 cup of milk
1/4 cup of light corn syrup
Kitchen Needs:
2 9" cake round pans
whisk
mixing bowl
small saucepan
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
In a mixing bowl, combine sour cream, water (or coffee) eggs and oil.
Combine well and then stir in your cake mix and pudding mix.
Then, stir in chocolate chunks
This mixture will be thick, but that's just how you want it.
Pour equally into 2 9" cake pans and bake for 30 minutes until knife comes out clean from the center.
Note: by clean, we mean no batter comes out with the knife. It may have some melted chocolate from the Velata on it and that's okay. Just no batter.
Once done, set on a cooling rack and let cool completely.
While cakes are baking, prepare the fudge sauce.
In a small saucepan, melt corn syrup and chocolate together until well combined. Next, pour in butter and milk and stir well, keeping it at a rolling boil for 5 minutes. Rolling boil means it keep the sauce boiling, but not going all crazy. :)
Then, remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
Once cakes and sauce have cooled, place one cake layer on your serving plate.
Take your fudge sauce and spoon it on top, covering it well. Let that goodness fill the crevasses and overflow the sides if you would like. This is what we like to call an 'organic' looking cake. ;)
Top with the second layer and repeat by pouring the sauce over the top making sure it falls over the edges and down the side of this delectable cake.
Now, here is where you can get a little funky if you'd like. My girls begged to top this with chocolate chips even though I think it was just fine without them. Since they were helping make daddy's cake, I let it slide. :) But choose your decoration of choosing. You might add some chopped nuts, powdered sugar or maybe even some more chopped Velata chunks. The choice is yours! You can't go wrong.
This cake can be served right away or placed in the refrigerator and served cold. I had it both ways and I loved how the chill factor made it even more dense and chewy, which is the way I love my cake.
It was a big hit with the birthday boy and with the rest of the family as well. A simple recipe with simple ingredients even the most unsure cook could master.
Happy Eating!
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