Happy Leap Day! First, I must wish my #3 child Happy Birthday today!! He's four, but according to the calendar he's only one. Since his Leap Day birthday only rolls around once every four years we are celebrating BIG today. I took in homemade cinnamon rolls for his birthday snack at preschool and we'll be dining at IHOP at his request :) This weekend we are having a Super Fast Racecar Birthday Party to celebrate, so stay tuned for those photos. I don't imagine it will be as loud as last year's Marching Band party, but it will be just as much fun.As promised, here is the Hot Chocolate Cake recipe. This is a doctored box mix cake that turned out fabulous! Really, really, good. I don't usually like chocolate cake, but this one was great. It was moist and dense in all the right places. I served it with chocolate buttercream icing. My 8 year old decided on the the flavor, just assuming I could make it happen! I was pretty relieved when it came out delicious - nothing like letting your foodie child down. He would have been the first person to tell me if it was terrible.
Hot Chocolate Cake
1 box of chocolate cake mix, regular chocolate or devil's food4 eggs
1/2 c water
1 c buttermilk
1/3 c vegetable oil
1 sm box pumpkin pie instant pudding mix (if you can't get this substitute 1 box chocolate or vanilla pudding mix and 2 tsp cinnamon)
1/2 c semi sweet chocolate chips
1 c mini marshmallows or cut up large ones
Put chocolate cake mix, eggs, water, buttermilk, oil and pudding in mixer bowl. Beat as directed on the cake mix box. Then add the chocolate chips and marshmallows and stir. Pour cake mix into greased cake pans and bake as directed on your cake mix box according to your cake pan size.
I used this to make my Magic Tree House birthday cake and it was moist and delicious. I frosted it with a chocolate buttercream icing.
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ReplyDeleteI'm trying this yummy cake this weekend! I referred to your Buttercream Icing recipe, but I didn't see what to add to make it a chocolate icing...help!
ReplyDeleteDebi I add cocoa powder into the sifter with the powdered sugar. Sad to say I never measure how much but I'll guess around 1/4 cup. It really depends on how chocolately you like it. You'll need to add a tad bit more milk to compensate. You can also make it with melted unsweetened choc squares, adding that to the butter. Hope that helps.
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