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The Ultimate Cake Quest - Part 1 Deluxe Chocolate Cake Mix

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Ingredients
  

  • 1 pkg devils food cake mix
  • 1 pkg, 113 g chocolate instant pudding mix
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • ½ cup 1% milk
  • ½ cup canola oil
  • 3 large eggs

CLASSIC BUTTERCREAM FROSTING

  • 3 cups icing sugar
  • ¾ cup cocoa
  • 2/3 cup softened butter
  • 5-6 Tbsp milk or cream
  • 1-1/2 tsp vanilla

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 325ºF. Grease and flour 2 – 8” pans.
  • To a large bowl, add cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, milk, oil and eggs. Blend with a mixer on low for I minute. Scrape down sides and bottom of bowl. Beat for 2 minutes on medium. The batter will be thick and fudgy.
  • Scrape evenly into the two pans, smoothing out with a spatula.
  • Bake until springs back when lightly touched – about 30-35 minutes.
  • Remove from oven let cook 5 minutes before turning out on to cooking rack.

To make CLASSIC BUTTERCREAM FROSTING:

  • Whisk sugar and cocoa together in a bowl.
  • In another bowl beat butter until smooth. Gradually add dry ingredients, alternating with milk until smooth. Beat in vanilla.