Chocolate Better Than Sex Cake
It's all in the name, this Chocolate Better Than Sex Cake brings a new meaning to enjoying your food. You won't need to look at any other chocolate cake recipes after this one. It's sinful!
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Cooking Time1 hr
Ingredients
- 1 package Duncan Hines Chocolate Butter Cake mix or Deep Chocolate Cake mix
- 3/4 cup pecans, toasted and then chopped
- 12 ounce semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 (4-ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 cup sour cream
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1/4 cup water (split with coffee if desired)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- For Dark Chocolate Glaze:
- 1 pound semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup water
Instructions
- Grease well and flour a tube, bundt, or 13 by 9 by 1-1/2 inch cake pan. For tube or bundt pan, have oven rack in lowest position. For cake pan, put rack in center of oven.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat nuts and chocolate chips with 1 tablespoon of the cake mix and set aside.
- Combine cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, eggs, oil, water, and vanilla and beat at medium speed with mixer for 3 minutes. Fold in chocolate chips and nuts.
- Turn into pan and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until cake tests done with cake tester. Cool for 15 minutes and if tube or bundt pan is used, turn onto a rack.
- Cake should be completely cool before glazing. Cake freezes well without glaze.
For Dark Chocolate Glaze:
- Combine semisweet chocolate chips with water in top of double boiler over simmering water.
- Stir until smooth, shiny, and well blended. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
- Cool to room temperature or chill until slightly thickened. Pour over cake or apply with a spatula.