Chocolate Bar Cake Recipe

4 Eggs
16 oz Can Hershey syrup
6 Regular Hershey bars, melt
1 tb Vanilla
2 c Sugar
1 c Butter,soft
3 c Flour
1/2 ts Baking soda
1 c Buttermilk OR
1 c Milk + 1 Tb vinegar
Mix syrup, candy bars and vanilla. Cream sugar and butter and add to chocolate. add eggs to milk. Sift flour and baking soda and add 1/3 at a time. Add buttermilk and mix well. Pour into greased angel food pan and bake at 350 degrees F for 1-1/2 hours. 
 
Bavarian Spice Chocolate Cake

1 pk Pillsbury Plus Devil's Food Cake Mix
1 ts Cinnamon
1/2 ts Nutmeg
1 c Cold mashed potatoes
1/2 c Butter, softened
1/2 c Water
3 Eggs
Glaze:
1/2 c Semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 tb Butter
2 tb Milk
1/2 c Powdered sugar
Heat oven to 350 degrees (F). Grease and flour a 12-cup fluted tube pan.
In large bowl, blend cake mix, cinnamon, nutmeg, potatoes, butter, water, and eggs until moistened. Beat 2 minutes at highest speed.
Pour into prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees (F) for 40-50 minutes. Cool upright in pan 25 minutes; invert onto serving plate. Cool completely.
In small saucepan, blend chocolate chips, 1 Tablespoon butter and milk over low heat until chocolate melts, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in powdered sugar until smooth. (If needed, add a few more drops of milk for desired consistency.) Spoon over top of cake, allowing some to run down the sides.
Garnish as desired.
Makes 16 servings. 
 
Best Chocolate Cake with Fudge Frosting

2 c Flour
2 c Sugar
1/2 c Shortening
3/4 c Water
3/4 c Buttermilk
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Salt
1 ts Vanilla
1/2 ts Baking powder
2 Eggs
4 oz Unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
Fudge frosting (see below)
Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease and flour 13 x 9 x 3 pan, 3 8" round pans or 2 9" round pans.
Beat all ingredients except fudge frosting in a large bowl on low speed for 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes, scraping bowl constantly. Pour into pan(s).
Bake for 40-45 minutes (rectangle pan) or 30-35 minutes (round pans), or until wooden pick comes out clean. Cool rounds 10 min.; remove from pans. Cool completely. Frost.
Fudge Frosting
2 c sugar
1/2 c shortening
3 oz unsweetened chocolate
2/3 c milk
1/2 t salt
2 t vanilla
Mix all ingredients except vanilla in a 2 1/2 quart saucepan. Heat to a rolling boil, stirring occasionally. Boil 1 minute without stirring. Place saucepan in a bowl of ice and water. Beat until frosting is smooth and of spreading consistency; add vanilla. 
 
 
Better Than Sex Cake

1 pk Semi-sweet chocolate chips (6oz)
3/4 c Pecans; chopped
1 pk Chocolate cake mix
4 Eggs
1 pk Instant chocolate pudding (4 serving size)
1 ct Sour cream (8oz)
Toss the chocolate chips and pecans in a tablespoon of the dry cake mix. Beat the remaining ingredients together for 3 minutes then fold in the chips and pecans. Pour into greased and floured Bundt or tube pan and bake 50 minutes at 350 degrees, or until cake test done. 
 
 
Bittersweet Chocolate Pound Cake

6 oz Chocolate, unsweetened
2 c Flour
1 ts Baking soda
3/4 ts Baking powder
2 tb Instant coffee
2 tb Water, hot
Water, cold
2 c Sugar
1 c Butter; softened
1 ts Vanilla extract
3 Eggs
Rich Chocolate Glaze:
1 oz Chocolate, unsweetened
1 c Sugar, confectioners
3 tb Butter; softened
1/2 ts Vanilla extract
1 tb ;Water, hot tap, to 2 T
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Over hot (not boiling) water, melt chocolate bars, stirring until smooth. In small bowl combine flour, baking soda and baking powder; set aside. In 2-cup glass measure, dissolve instant coffee in hot water; add cold water to measure 1-1/2 cups.
In a large mixer bowl, beat sugar, butter and vanilla until creamy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Beat at high speed 5 minutes. Stir in melted chocolate. Add flour mixture alternately with coffee mixture. Pour batter into greased and floured 10-inch Bundt pan or angel food cake pan.
Bake 65-70 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 30 minutes; remove from pan and cool completely. Drizzle with Rich Chocolate Glaze.
Glaze: Over hot (not boiling) water, melt chocolate, stirring until smooth. In the small mixer bowl, combine melted chocolate, confectioners' sugar, butter and vanilla. At low speed, gradually beat in water until smooth. Drizzle over cake. 
 
Black Chocolate Cake

2 oz Unsweetened chocolate
1/2 c Sugar
1/2 c Milk
1 c Sugar
1/2 c Butter
1 c Milk
2 Eggs
2 c Flour, sifted
1 ts Soda
Boil first 3 ingredients until thick; set aside to cool. Mix together remaining ingredients. Add cooled chocolate; beat with electric mixer 2 minutes on medium speed. Bake in 9 x 13" pan 25 minutes at 350 degrees.