The Best Chocolate Cake: Simple, Sweet & Delicious

 

We all have treasured family recipes that have been passed down through generations that maybe your grandmother and great-grandmother used to make. My Mom has lots of admirable qualities but making cakes from scratch is not one of them, like this moist and delicious Chocolate Cake that she always does for my brother's birthday. Her secret comes in a little box — Betty Crocker Super Moist Devil's Food Cake Mix. Lovingly frosted with store-bought Duncan Hines Creamy Home-Style Chocolate Frosting, this cake, as Shakespeare might have said, "is such stuff that dreams are made on." I love to cook and usually make everything from scratch, but this year I took a page out of my Mom's no-stress baking mantra, and made my brother's birthday cake this past weekend. Easy? You bet. Delicious? Absolutely. You just can't beat old family favourites. 

Mom's Chocolate Cake
Serves 12

1 box Betty Crocker Super Moist Devil's Food Cake Mix

1 1/4 cups water 

1/2 cup vegetable oil 

3 large eggs

Frosting: 

1 16 oz container Duncan Hines Creamy Home-Style Chocolate Frosting

Heat oven to 350°F for shiny metal or glass pans or 325°F for dark or nonstick pans. Grease the bottom only of 13 in x 9 inch pan or bottom and sides of all other pans. Mix the Cake Mix, water, oil and eggs in large bowl with mixer on medium speed. Pour into two 9-inch round silver pans, as I did, for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from the pan. Cool completely before frosting both in between the 2 layers and along the top and sides.