Dessert, Thy Name is YES

Heading into the holidays, your to-do list is longest just as days are growing shorter. Grrrr!

Following is a dessert recipe that will assure your sanity whether entertaining two or twenty - chocolate cake that is RIDICULOUSLY delicious, moist like crazy and a cinch to make…

Tastes absolutely homemade, yet incorporates a cake mix (gasp! time saver!) in the recipe. So, if you're hosting a dinner or party…or need to deliver a gift (gorgeous! scrumptious! easy!) - here you go!

Grandmama's Chocolate Chip Chocolate Cake

- 1 box Duncan Hines Yellow Cake (per my grandmother, do not substitute with any other brand!)

- 4 eggs

- 1 small container sour cream (the real kind; do not use the light version)

- 1 package Jell-O instant chocolate pudding

- 3/4 cup canola oil

- 3/4 cup water

- 1 small package semi-sweet Nestle chocolate chips (use big package o' chips if the cake is to be used for 'wooing')

- Pam cooking spray

- Bundt pan

- Handheld mixer or ample biceps

Directions:

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees

- Mix all ingredients (except chocolate chips) together with either strong arms or good little handheld mixer. Kill clumps 'til smooth.

- Gently fold in the chocolate chips, like the precious things they are.

- Spray bundt pan lightly with Pam. Pour mixture into pan, place in oven, cook at 350 degrees for approx 35 minutes.

- Test with toothpick/fork/knife

- Cake will likely need another 10 minutes, depending on the oven/phase of the moon

Remove from oven and let cool for several hours.

Note: the cooling is very important! If you try to flip the cake out of the pan too quickly, the results will make you cry - broken cake. The taste, however, is in no way impaired by breakage (should you happen to be dining alone and aesthetics are a non-issue).

Going for extra fancy? Fill the center of the cake (the opening left by the bundt pan) with fresh berries, and sprinkle powdered sugar over the cake just before serving.

Going for extra-rich? Frost with Duncan Hines chocolate frosting. Note: this step is not necessary at all - the cake is amazing as-is! The frosting is just for when you have an extra five minutes and want to bless folks with even more chocolatey goodness.

Here's to your tastiest, easiest-ever next soiree!

Love,

Melinda

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