Darn Good Chocolate Cake ( Cake Mix Cake)

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package devil's food cake mix
• 1 (4 ounce) box instant chocolate pudding mix
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 4 large eggs
• chocolate frosting (" perfect" chocolate frosting is preferred, but store bought or your own recipe is acceptable)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 grease 2 9-inch round cake pans.
• 3 dust with flour and tap out the excess; set pans aside.
• 4 place the cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, water, oil, and eggs in a large mixing bowl.
• 5 blend with an electric mixer on low speed for 1 minute.
• 6 stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
• 7 on medium low speed, continue to blend for 2-3 minutes more.
• 8 the batter will be very thick and should look well combined.
• 9 pour batter into prepared pans and smooth it out.
• 10 bake for 27-32 minutes (since i switched pans, i started checking the cakes at 25 minutes-- it was like gooey chocolate pudding-- then 3 minutes later it was perfect.
• 11 another couple of minutes and i think it would have been dry, so keep an eye on your cakes.
• 12 allow to cool in the pans on a wire rack for 20 minutes.
• 13 now is the time to start preparing your frosting.
• 14 run a knife along the edges on the cakes pans and carefully remove cake by inverting it; allow to cool for 20 minutes more on the wire rack right side up.
• 15 when the cake layers are completely cool, cut layers in half (save a domed layer for the top-- it makes your cakes look homemade) and frost.