Reviewed: Nov. 18, 2009

This has become a staple at my house. My 10 year old loves to make it also. It's very moist and chocolatey tasting. A simple recipe that tastes great!

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MERRYMEOHIO

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Reviewed: Feb. 14, 2009

The cake is in the oven now but I'm nervous - I started making it before I noticed it needed 5 eggs! 3 cups of white sugar! 1.5 cups of butter/shortening! and has a zillion calories and grams of fat. It's baking and I made a lot of substitutions - less sugar, less butter and more milk and low-fat sour cream so hopefully it won't be a disaster. UPDATE: The cake turned out fine - thank goodness. But, like I mentioned, I couldn't bear to add so many fatty ingredients so I only added 1 cup of butter (no shortening), 1 cup of white sugar (the cocoa powder had some cinnamon and sugar in it), 2 eggs (that's all we had) and two tablespoons of low-fat sour cream. I also left out about 1/4 of the mix as it looked like it was going to fill the bundt pan too full. It turned out more like a spice cake with choco chips but was still moist and quite good. Still, I don't know if I'd make it again.

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Reviewed: Aug. 11, 2008

really a great recipe--- i made half with the cocoa powder and half without, then marbled it... turned out fabulous. i'm definitely making this one again... i don't know why some users found it dry. it worked out for me very nicely. now i'm babbling... but definitely try this out!!

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SofiaSasparilla

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Reviewed: Jul. 4, 2008

This is the best chocolate cake I've ever had! I made it today, since we were having my grandparents over for the 4th of July. Everyone loved it.

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Reviewed: May 18, 2008

Sorry-- this cake did not work well for me. I am not picky-- but I was not impressed.

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Jessica

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Reviewed: Feb. 9, 2008

This cake was terrific. I cooked it 10 minutes longer then it recomended. It turned out great.

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Sam

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Reviewed: Dec. 29, 2007

This cake was delicious and pretty easy to make. I do agree it makes way more than just one cake. I filled my pan about ¾ of the way full and then I used the rest to make 12 cupcakes and we also ate a good bit of frosting!! It was chocolate but not too chocolaty. It has a really great taste!! Thanks!!

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Wendy

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Reviewed: Nov. 27, 2007

I listened to the previous reviewers, and only poured half of the batter into my bundt pan. I also substituted 1/4 c sour cream and 3/4 c milk to try and make it more moist, and that failed. It was very dry. Decent flavor, but not very chocolatey enough. I even dusted the bundt pan with cocoa powder instead of flour to boost the chocolate flavor, and it didn't help. Using the chocolate glaze II from this site helped a little - but be sure to have a glass of milk on hand when eating.

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Michelle

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Reviewed: Nov. 27, 2007

Very tasty. It did not need frosting, as it was sweet enough by itself. I had massive overflow so the second time I put the extra batter in a 3-cup soup crock and I still had overflow! You can easily make a large and small bunt cake out of this recipe.

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Reviewed: Oct. 1, 2007

This cake is easy to make and delicious. I made this for a friend's birthday then had to make it for my family. Because it is such a large cake, I cut it in half using two eggs and baked it for 50 minutes in a 8" square pan. Make sure you use a 10" bundt pan for the whole recipe. Most likely bakers that had trouble with batter spilling over used the wrong size pan.

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kaydee b.

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Reviewed: Sep. 26, 2007

This was good, but not exceptional.

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MAK8CE

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Reviewed: Aug. 9, 2007

too dense and not very fluffy

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Reviewed: Aug. 5, 2007

This cake was delicious. I only wish I could have done some sort of glaze but I made it for a county fair baking contest! IT WON 1st Place out of three bundt cakes! Thanks so much for the recipe. Not too chocolatey but very nice texture and flavor!

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MECIA2

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Reviewed: Jul. 11, 2007

Followed it exactly to original recipe. Very moist and wonderfully tasty! Frosted with German Chocolate Frosting 11 from this site. Great cake!

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Reviewed: Apr. 24, 2007

I didn't follow the recipe exactly - I used 1 cup margarine and 1/2 cup vegetable oil - besides that I did everything the same. It turned out tasty indeed. It is simple to make and so I like that. I am using it to make a barbie-doll cake so I liked that other reviewer said it made a lot so that I could pour some of the batter into a small pyrex bowl - for the top part of the dress. It did however, take about 15 minutes longer to bake and 85 minutes total baking time is much longer than I prefer. The cake tastes so much better the next day - it stayed moist and everyone ate it up. I will make this again. But i'll probably turn up the oven temp so it can bake faster.

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Reviewed: Feb. 6, 2007

I have found that mixing one jar of 8 or 16 ounce, which ever you prefer, of your favorite icing with the batter to make the cake more rich and smooth.

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Reviewed: Feb. 3, 2007

This was the best cake I have ever made. I followed another cook's advice and added a box of chocolate pudding mix. I also used buttermilk instead of milk for an incredibly rich, moist and sinful cake!

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kristine162

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Reviewed: Nov. 10, 2006

this was great. i added chocolate chips to it so it made it all the more better. the only problem i had with this, i got horrible heartburn and i dont normally get it. but ooohh yum! :D

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Reviewed: Sep. 17, 2006

i added a box of jello devils food pudding to this recipe and was seriously the most delicious chocolate cake we've had. thank you thank you!

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Reviewed: Jul. 11, 2006

This was a great bundt cake. Very tasty, I added some chocolate chip and glazed it with a chocolate glaze, definite Chocolate overkill, but how can you go wrong? Took quite a while to bake, but with patience, it does come out wonderful.

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