Layered Chocolate Cake
- Reviews 2
Ready In: 40 mins
Serves: 10
Ingredients
- 1 (18 1/4ounce) package German chocolate cake mix
- 1 1⁄3 cups water
- 3 eggs
- 1⁄3 cup canola oil
- 1 (3 ounce) package vanilla pudding mix (cook-and-serve)
- 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 2 cups milk
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons baking cocoa
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, then grease a 15"x10" baking pan.
- In a large bowl, stir together cake mix, water, eggs & oil until well combined.
- Pour into the prepared pan & bake 23-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
- Cool in the pan on a wire rack.
- In a large saucepan, combine pudding mix, gelatin & milk, cooking according to the package directions for pudding. Cool.
- When cake has cooled, cut it into three 10"x5" rectangles, placing one on a serving platter & spreading half of the pudding mixture over the top of it. Repeat this layering, then top that off with the 3rd layer of cake.
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese & butter until fluffy, then beat in the sugar & cocoa & then the vanilla until smooth.
- Frost top & sides of the cake. Store in the refrigerator.
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