It was one of those days when, once again nothing but something chocolate sounded good to me! As i went through the cabinet looking for cream of chicken soup to use in a casserole later that day, a can of Betty Crocker German Chocolate frosting stared back at me from the shelf below the soups! I had bought it for this very purpose a couple months ago but since i was addicted these past few months to sugar cookies and White Texas sheet cake, I had not been making a lot of chocolate cakes! The only time I use bought canned frosting is for something like this because I always make my own frostings to put on cakes. Homemade frostings can always make the most simplest of cakes….well, heavenly! But on to the recipe! Pulling out a Duncan Hines Devils Food cake mix, I added the 4 eggs , 1 cup of water, 1/2 cup oil and the small package of cheesecake flavored instant pudding! Mixed this together and sprayed the little bundt pans with Pam! Using an ice cream scoop, I put about 1/2 full scoop of batter in bottom of bundt pan! Got a regular teaspoon and put teaspoons of the frosting around on top of the batter! Being careful to not allow the frosting to touch the sides of the pan! I also sprinkled semi sweet chocolate chips over the frosting before covering the frosting with more batter (used just a small handful of chips! Of course never use more than will overflow the cake pan! adjust accordingly to what you need to the size of the pan you are using. i just use small bundt pans so i can share them instead of just cutting slices off of a normal size bundt cake! also the small sizes are so easy to keep in freezer to pull out when you need! Bake until top of cake still looks a little wrinkled! sounds weird but this assures you it won’t be dry as it cools! Had some ganache left over in fridge, so nuked it for about 15 seconds and poured it over the top! it was delicious! I should’ve taken a picture of it before I gave a lot of it away and before we ate most of it but the frosting in the middle just made it so moist and so flavorful and kind of gooey that we loved it. Of course you can use any flavor of the instant puddings. sometimes I use cheesecake flavored, sometimes I use vanilla, sometimes I use white chocolate and sometimes I use chocolate I just like the combination of either the white chocolate or cheesecake flavors in chocolate cake mixes !
Chocolate Castles 