Easy Chocolate Pudding Fudge Cake

I love chocolate.....so when asked to bring a cake to a picnic....I chose the one with lots of chocolate and great reviews on my favorite recipe website....allrecipes.com.

This was super easy...almost too easy.....and I had everything but the cake mix on hand.

L

• 1 (18.25 ounce) package devil's food cake mix
• 1 (3.9 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup water
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
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• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
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  • In a large bowl, combine cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, milk, oil, water and eggs. Beat for 4 minutes, then mix in 2 cups chocolate chips.
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Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

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• To make the glaze: Melt the butter and 1 cup chocolate chips in a double boiler or microwave oven. Stir until smooth and drizzle over cake.

For an easy and very pretty recipe....this one turned out great...and tasted good.  If in a pinch for a quick dessert that travels well.......here is your recipe.

Hope you enjoy it as much as my family did!!!

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Coconut Zucchini Cake

Eat your cake and get your veggies!

Yes, I still have zucchini coming out of my ears!  Not literally, but wow, who knew there are so many recipes of cakes, breads, and muffins that you can use for your zucchini?  Well, I had an idea; but I didn't think I would be making all of them within a few months.  I'm not complaining, zucchini is great!  I think I may try to come up with a cookie recipe on my own, so you'll have to check back later to see how it turns out.  

For this week, I made a Coconut Zucchini cake that my husband loved!  It's a very heavy cake, so have some friends to share it with.  I didn't put icing on it at first, and it tasted great...sometimes with a scoop of ice cream just made it better!  I did ice a few of the pieces of cake with cream cheese icing for the pictures, which actually made it taste more like a carrot cake...only better than carrot cake.

So, go raid your neighbor's garden of some zucchini...if you're my neighbor, just give me a shout!... and try this recipe.  You'll be so happy that you did! 

Recipe:
Coconut Zucchini cake
3 c. shredded zucchini (peeled)
3 c. sugar
1 1/2 c. oil
4 eggs
2 t. vanilla
3 c. flour
1 t. salt
2 t. baking powder
1 1/2 t. cinnamon
1 c. coconut
1/2 c. pecans (chopped)

Dirctions:
Combine eggs, sugar, oil and zucchini in a large bowl.  

In another bowl, sift dry ingredients together.

Add dry ingredients to the large bowl of wet ingredients a little at a time and stir together with a spoon until mixed well.  

Add vanilla, coconut and nuts and mix well.

Pour into an greased and floured 9x13 prepared pan... do we still call it greased and floured?  This is an old recipe, but couldn't think of what else to call it to make it sound healthier!

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 mins.

Enjoy yourself some zucchini!

Dee

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

Each year, I plant a garden, where I try different things, instead of just the standard tomatoes and peppers.  Last year, my addition was two zucchini plants, which were blown over and snapped off, just as my first zucchini was starting to grow.  I was so bummed since I was really looking forward to all the zucchini I was going to grow so that I could make the wonderful zucchini bread and cake recipes that my Mom gave me several years ago.  

Oh, and these are great recipes!  I've known people who don't like zucchini, but love the chocolate zucchini cake...with a glass of milk, there is nothing better!  I mean really, you get to eat chocolate cake, and you don't feel guilty because it has vegetables in it!

This year, I made sure I was going to get some zucchini, so I planted 15 plants.  Yep, that's right...fifteen plants.  All I can say now is...I have lots of zucchini and more coming every day!  

Needless to say, I was able to make the chocolate zucchini cake, and remember why people love it so much.  It has this perfect combination of chocolate with some cinnamon and clove spices to add that extra little 'sumtin, sumtin'.  The zucchini helps keep the cake moist, and then some chocolate icing on top that brings everything together nicely.   Yum!

Here are the ingredients for the recipe:

 1/2 c. butter (softened)

 1/2 c. vegetable oil

1 3/4 c. sugar

2 eggs

1 t. vanilla

2 c. shredded zucchini (peeled)

1/4 c. chocolate chips

1/2 c. sour milk (add 1 T. vinegar to milk to make it sour)

2 1/2 c. flour

4 T. cocoa

1/2 t. baking powder

1 t. baking soda

1/2 t. cloves (ground)

1/2 t. cinnamon

1/2 t. salt

Here are the directions:

Mix all the ingredients together in the order given.  Here is what it looks like when you cream the first five ingredients together.

You'll want to shred your zucchini to add into the mixture...I really did shred into a different bowl, but had it on the main bowl for the pictures... 

Mix the rest of the ingredients together

Bake in a 9x13 well greased pan at 325 degrees for 40 - 50 minutes.

In the top picture, I used Duncan Hines chocolate fudge icing out of the tub to ice the cake.  I had enough batter left over, that I was able to make a small cake, and made a chocolate mousse icing for it.  Both are good...the mousse icing is refreshing...  and here's the super easy recipe for it

 Ingredients:
1 container of whipped cream (I used Cool Whip free to cut down on the calories).  
1/2 pkg of instant chocolate pudding (I used sugar free...once again to keep calories down)

Slowly pour 1/2 the package of instant pudding into the cool whip and gently fold in.  Continue to fold the pudding in until it is thoroughly mixed together.  Let sit for about 5 mins, and the mixture will thicken.  Spread on top of the cake...or just eat with a spoon.  Guess which one I did!  
 
Hope you get your chocolate fix, with a side of veggies!
Dee