Chocolate Fudge Cake

Decadent fudge style cake frosted with chocolate and vanilla icing.
Ingredients -
Butter
1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix
1 cup Water
3 Eggs
1/3 cup Corn Oil
1/3 cup Sour Cream
2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
1/2 teaspoon Kosher Salt
1 cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips

Icing:
2 cups Semisweet Chocolate Chips
2 cups Sugar
2/3 cup Milk
1 cup Unsalted Butter, cut into pieces
1/4 teaspoon Kosher Salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

 
Preparation:

1. Heat oven to 350 F.

2. Butter 3 (8 x 8”) cake pans

3. Add devil’s food cake mix, water, eggs, corn oil, sour cream, vanilla extract, and kosher salt to mixing bowl.

4. Beat on low speed until the cake mixture is blended well. Increase to medium and beat 2 minutes.

5. Stir in chocolate chips.

6. Pour cake batter equally into cake pans.

7. Bake 25 minutes.

8. Remove cakes from oven. Cool completely.

Icing:
1. Add chocolate chips to mixing bowl.

2. Add sugar, milk, butter, and kosher salt to medium saucepan. Heat over high heat.

3. Bring to a boil stirring occasionally. Boil 60 seconds.

4. Pour the sugar mixture over the chocolate chips.

5. Add vanilla extract.

6. Whisk by hand or on stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, beat on medium speed until mixture begins to thicken to spreading consistency.

7. Spread icing on cake between layers and on cake surface.

 



Fudge Making Tips
Sugar Crystallization
Follow the recipe directions very carefully. Check temperatures exactly when it instructs, stir the ingredients at precisely the time it say. Well behaved sugar and following directions will mean small sugar crystals and a smooth fudge product.

Fudge Making Tips
Heavy Saucepan

For best results when making fudge, use a heavy high-sided saucepan. Use a pan that holds two to three times the volume of the candy recipe you are making. Heavy pans are less likely to allow scorching, and extra room in the pan eliminates much of the risk of recipes boiling over.


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