This is a fall and wintertime family favorite! It smells wonderful, is simple to prepare, and is ideal for a leisurely day. have both visitors and extended family? Just multiply the quantity of each item by two. This is really simple! I got the potato soup with cream cheese base free of charge from Panera Bread®. Over time, I made a few additions to make it more family-friendly. This soup is well-balanced, full of flavor, and cayenne adds just the right amount of lingering heat. Red pepper flakes can be used as a side garnish if you have finicky “little” ones. Serve with fresh beer bread and a slice of sharp shredded cheese!
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 1 – 9×13 inch pan |
Ingredients
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
- ¼ cup butter
- 2 cups white sugar
- 6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Bake a box chocolate cake as directed. While hot from the oven, poke holes over entire cake with a fork. While the cake is cooking prepare the fudge sauce.
- For the fudge sauce: In a saucepan, combine butter, sugar, cocoa and cream. Stir over medium heat until a full boil starts. Cook at a full boil for 2 minutes. Stir in vanilla. Pour while hot over warm cake. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts. Serve alone or with ice-cream.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 221 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 34 g |
| Cholesterol | 19 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 196 mg |
| Sugars | 25 g |
| Fat | 10 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Death by chocolate! I made this for my cousin’s birthday and it was easy, tasty and so rich – definitely a treat worth having (once in a while).
Didn’t use nuts due to allergies. I found the sauce so sweet that the taste of sugar overtook the taste of chocolate — will double the cocoa next time. I only poured half the sauce over cake then put remaining sauce on after slicing. Ate while cake and sauce was still warm. Kids “loved” it.
Didn’t like the sauce. It was too liquid n runny.
I love this cake it’s super quick and easy. If you like strawberry try it with a strawberry cake mix. It tastes like a choc covered strawberry.
Likely not the recipe, but rather me, but I got an uneven cake. So the sauce sorta pooled in the low areas. There seemed to be a bit too much of it too. As for taste, only a heartless person could so no to that much chocolate! This is a great way to dress up a plain chocolate cake from a mix.
I made this as instructed. It was just ok to us. Kids gave it 3 stars. Hubby & I gave it 2 to 3. Just seemed boring.
This is delicious! I used a 9×13 dish and followed the instructions to a tee. I might use 3/4 of the amount of sauce, but the entire batch works too – it looks like a not-quite-solid ganache. Omitted the walnuts. Would compliment strawberries – especially chocolate covered strawberries used to garnish the top.
Thank you very much for sharing this. I omitted the walnuts since my husband doesn’t like them. I have made this numerous times since it is now my husbands favorite cake! He tackles it never saw him eat that much cake. Making it right now !
I followed the recipe exactly and this was a great tasting moist cake! My whole family loved it, I will definately be making this cake again!
This was alright. Satisfied a chocolate fix. Used a German Chocolate mix, so the sweetness of the fudge balanced it. Used lowfat milk with about a Tbsp of cornstarch in the sauce. Not terribly thick, but enough. Soaked into the cake perfectly. Agree that it should be served with ice cream or whipped cream…and a glass of milk.
This is so yummy ! I very rarely bake with boxed cake mixes but this sounded good and I had a boxed chocolate cake mix so I gave it a try. You cannot tell it starts from a boxed cake mix !! My co-workers loved it !
It is good, but just really messy. Kids enjoyed it!
This was a good way to make somethng more special out of a cake mix. It tasted a lot better the next day. I made it in a bundt cake pan, but that was a VERY BAD idea. When you stick the cake with the fork, IF you can get the sauce to soak in, which is a pain, then your cake cracks into pieces when it does soak in! So make it in a 13×9 for sure!!! I made it a second time in the 13X9 and what a difference! it was like a different cake. This cake is supposed to be made in a 13X9 & left in the pan so that when you pour the fudge sauce on it, it can soak in. That doesn’t work with a bundt or other “take out of the pan” cake. You aren’t supposed to take it out of the pan at all. That is why so many reviewers say there is too much sauce. So make it in a 13X9 pan and leave it in the pan, and it tastes much better after it sets for a day for flavors to mix, if you can wait that long. It takes the “cake mix” flavor out of it. (I used a cheap aldi’s devils food cake mix).I made my rating on the taste of the 13X9 cake a day later and how good it would have been if I’d followed the instructions both times instead of listening to the other people who had made it in a bundt pan. In a bundt pan it just tastes like a cake mix cake with some sauce poured on it, in the 13X9, it’s dessert! Also I just used 2T more margarine and whole milk as a substitute for the cream. I couldn’t see any reason to buy anything special for this cake.
Holy cow this was decadent. Emphasis on the fudgey. Me and my MIL ate it with a fork right off the cake plate. Made with a decorative bundt pan and sprinkled with powder sugar it could have gotten along fine without the fudge drizzle. Major girl bonding moment over this little cake.
EZ AND YUMMY CAKE! Left out the nuts..otherwise, I followed recipe exactly. This cake was a huge hit. I think next time I make this, I will throw in some dried cherries. Thanks Colleen for taking the time to post this recipe!
My goodness. I really messed this up somehow. The box cake was, of course, fine. The fudge sauce was grainy. I cooked it at a full boil for 2 min. I then added the extract. Poured it over the cake as you are suppose to. Maybe the white sugar should have been confectioners. Really turned out awful.
This recipe is wonderful! I always have cake mixes on hand for emergency desserts and I normally have all the other ingredients except for the whipping cream. I recently made this cake for a girlfriend’s birthday (she’s a chocaholic) and everyone loved it. Thanks so much for sharing!
verygood and very rich, but easy…
My boyfriend is a chocola holc and loved this cake. It was so easy and soooo yummie.
I made this for my choco-holic step-daughter’s birthday. Everyone that tried it really liked it. I’m not a big chocolate fan, so I did not indulge. It was very easy to make, which is a plus! Thanks for the recipe!
SO easy and people thought I bought it at the store! I made this in a bunt pan as people recommended and then I poured the fudge on top and made sure to fill most of the fudge into the middle of the bunt. When you do this make sure your cake is on a pan with edges so the sauce doesn’t get all over the counter!