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Aunt Rita’s Chocolate Cake

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  • Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
  • Yield: 12 servings 1x

Ingredients

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1 pkg. Duncan Hines Devils Food Mix

1 small pkg. Jello Instant Chocolate Pudding

1 cup whole milk

1/3 cup vegetable oil

8 oz. sour cream

4 lg. eggs

12 oz. semisweet chocolate chips (I prefer Ghirardelli Bittersweet Chips)

Optional Ganache:

8 oz. semisweet chocolate chips (I prefer Ghirardelli Bittersweet Chips)

1 cup heavy cream

3 tbps. unsalted butter

1 tbsp. instant espresso powder

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F. ย Lightly grease a tube pan and dust with dark cocoa powder. ย Mix all ingredients except chips in large bowl with beater until thoroughly blended. ย About 2 minutes. ย Fold in chips by hand with spatula. ย Spoon batter into tube pan and bake for at least 1 hour until toothpick ย or cake test inserted in center comes out clean. ย Cool in pan for 15 minutes and then remove from pan and cool completely. ย This cake is so good it needs no icing. But if you choose to take it over the top drizzle the chocolate ganache over it!

For the ganache:

Place the chocolate chips, instant espresso and butter in a medium sized heat proof bowl. Heat the cream until tiny bubbles begin to form. Pour over the ingredients in the bowl and let sit for a couple of minutes. Then begin stirring with a spatula starting with small circles in the center of the bowl and working outward until the melted and a homogeneous dark rich chocolatey brown.

 

  • Author: Sandy Axelrod
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 1 hour
  • Category: Sweets
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: American
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