Pretty good. The cake was a little dry but very chocolately! I served it with raspberries and little dollop of whipped cream.

This tried and true doctored up cake mix recipe is reliable and very good, which explains why it's been around for at least a couple of decades, maybe longer! The proportions of ingredients are spot on - some call for way too much oil or sour cream but this one is just right. To enhance the chocolate flavor I replaced the water with coffee and added a teaspoon of chocolate extract. This is also a very versatile recipe - I've used different flavored cake mixes or puddings, replaced all or part of the water with different liqueurs, added chocolate chips - the possibilities are endless. On this occasion I added mini chocolate chips and glazed it with "Pro Ganache," also from this site, which I thought was a better alternative than the Cool Whip ganache directed in the recipe and just as easy. This is a great "go to" cake when you need one quickly!

This recipe rocks!!! When I made the cake, I substituted dried cranberries for the fresh raspberries, and instead of the Baker's chocolate, I used a bar of Hersey's Special Dark Chocolate. Both were great additions to the cake!

Maybe I did something wrong! The cake was really heavy. The middle was like fudge. It came up and over the tube pan at first then fell. Help if you know what I did wrong.

REALLY GOOD!