Heavenly Chocolate Raspberry Bundt Cake

Marie's Note:

As if the chocolate bundt cake isn't yummy enough, this has a "tunnel" of cream cheese filling with chocolate chips and fresh raspberries added to make it even more decadent!

• Total Time: 1 hrs 35 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 16

Cake

• 1 cup melted butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cups flour
• 3/4 cup cocoa
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Filling

• 12 ounces cream cheese
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups fresh raspberries

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Grease a bundt or tube pan.
3. Make filling by creaming together, cream cheese with sugar and vanilla.
4. Mix in chocolate chips and set aside.
5. For cake, sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
6. Beat eggs and gradually add the sugar and beat until the mixture is thick and pale yellow.
7. Beat in melted butter, then milk, water and vanilla.
8. Gradually add in the flour mixture and mix well.
9. Spread half the batter into the prepared pan.
10. Drop spoonfuls of the cream cheese filling evenly over the batter.
11. Sprinkle raspberries over the top.
12. Cover with remaining batter.
13. Bake at 375 degrees for about 1 1/4 hours.

Reviews

[Potluck]

375 degrees? The cake was burning in less than a hour so I turned the heat down and covered with foil..Took a hour to bake..When cooled I put it on a plate ,the cake was hard and dry on the top..The inside looked gooey..There was a big hollow area in the cake where the filling settles.And the bottom which was the top in the oven had slight burn...Not impressed..My oven temp was accurate,so what went wrong?After a couple of days the cake got alittle softer,took moistness from filling. It did have a good flavor,but I wont be making it again...

[chocoholic18]

After baking and cooling, it seemed very dense. But after a couple of days , it was surprisingly moist...I guess it's because of the raspberry sauce I left on it!! It came out beautifully though and I didn't have any issues taking it out of the bundt pan either. The raspberry sauce was really really good too! My photo doesn't do it much justice though :(

[VeggieDelite]

I made this for a birthday party and it was well received. I also used the raspberry glaze that others recommended... The recipe says it serves 16, but you could probably squeeze a few more out of it if you wanted. The cake is rather rich and several people struggled to finish their piece (even though they raved about the taste).