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Layered Chocolate Cake
 
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 30 Minutes
Ready In: 40 Minutes
Servings: 10
Preparation time include neither the time needed for the cake to cool before slicing it into layers, nor the time needed for the pudding mixture to cool.
Ingredients:
1 (18 1/4 ounce) 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:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, then grease a 15 x10 baking pan.
2. In a large bowl, stir together cake mix, water, eggs & oil until well combined.
3. Pour into the prepared pan & bake 23-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
4. Cool in the pan on a wire rack.
5. In a large saucepan, combine pudding mix, gelatin & milk, cooking according to the package directions for pudding. Cool.
6. 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.
7. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese & butter until fluffy, then beat in the sugar & cocoa & then the vanilla until smooth.
8. Frost top & sides of the cake. Store in the refrigerator.
By RecipeOfHealth.com