Gooey Chocolate Cake

This Chocolate Cake is a must for any Chocolate lover on their Cheat Day. My husband is a chocoholic and had half of this cake by the time the day was through. I helped myself to a repeat encounter as well and I am more of a "vanilla lover".

This recipe interested me as it received an impressive 4,450 five stars on allrecipies.com. When it comes to my cheat day, I don't want to waste my time on a new recipe I won't like. Allrecipies, being the Amazon of the food world, helps boost my confidence that what I am making will be worth the time...and calories.

This recipe and it's partner in crime, the Satiny Chocolate Glaze, lived up to all the hype!

INGREDIENTS

Chocolate Cake
1 box devil's food cake mix
1 package chocolate pudding mix
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1/2 cup warm water
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2. Grease a 12 cup bundt pan. I used olive oil cooking spray. Make sure you get the spray or whatever greasing agent you are using into all of the nooks and crannies of your pan.
3. In a large bowl with a standard mixer, mix the cake mix and pudding. Add the vegetable oil, eggs and warm water until well mixed.
4. Stir in the chocolate chips. Mini chocolate chips work best because they are small and disperse more in the batter and are less likely to sink to the bottom, but regular chocolate chips will be just fine.
5. Pour batter into the prepared bundt pan and bake for 50-55 min or until top is springy. The toothpick trick doesn't work very well with this recipe because the chocolate chips will always make your toothpick come out chocolaty. If you overcook the sides a little bit, they will just have the texture of the crust of brownies-something I actually liked about the cake-so not to worry.

Now on to that chocolate drizzled heaven...

INGREDIENTS

Chocolate Glaze
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
3 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS

1. In a double broiler, simmer water (not quite boiling, but hot). Combine chocolate chips, butter and corn syrup. Stir consistently until chocolate and butter have melted. Add vanilla.
2. Drizzle glaze on the cake tilting the glaze so that it falls over the sides. Sprinkle with chocolate chips for decoration.