Hornets Nest Cake With Triple Chocolate Cake Variation Recipes

HORNET'S NEST CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 13×9 baking pan, set aside.
• In a large bowl, whisk together pudding mix and milk. Let sit 5 minutes until it firms up. Fold in the cake mix and stir until combined (a few lumps are ok).
• Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatula. Scatter the butterscotch chips and pecans on top of cake batter.
• Bake cake for 35 to 40 minutes - until it springs back when lightly pressed with fingers. Remove from oven and let cake cool on wire rack for 30 minutes before serving.
• Store this cake in baking dish (covered in aluminum foil) at room temperature for up to 1 week.

HORNET'S NEST CAKE (WITH TRIPLE CHOCOLATE CAKE VARIATION)

Steps:

• Cook pudding with the milk as directed on package and let it cool.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Spray a 9x13x2" baking pan with non-stick spray.
• Combine the prepared pudding and the dry cake mix, mixing until well blended.
• Spread batter in the prepared pan.
• Sprinkle top evenly with the nuts and the butterscotch chips.
• Bake for 25 minutes.
• Triple Chocolate Version: Substitute chocolate pudding mix for the vanilla and chocolate or devil's food cake mix for the yellow cake mix; use chocolate, butterscotch or peanut butter chips and nuts of your choice.

DARK TRIPLE CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl combine all ingredients except chocolate chips.
• Beat 4 minutes.
• Fold in chocolate chips.
• Bake in a greased and floured 12 cup bundt pan at 350 for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool in pan for 15 minutes then turn onto serving plate.

HORNETS NEST CAKE

Steps:

• Grease a 9x13 baking dish and preheat oven to 350.
• mix pudding mix into milk and cook pudding according to package directions.
• let cool a bit and add dry cake mix into pudding and mix well.
• pour into prepared baking dish and sprinkle top with butterscotch chips and then nuts.
• bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes.

TRIPLE-CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F. Grease 9-inch round cake pan. In 2-quart heavy saucepan, melt 1 cup of the chocolate chips and 1/2 cup butter over low heat, stirring constantly; cool 5 minutes. Stir in flour until smooth. Stir in egg yolks until well blended.
• In large bowl, beat egg whites with electric mixer on high speed until foamy. Beat in sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until soft peaks form. Fold chocolate mixture into egg whites. Spread in pan.
• Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean (top will appear dry and cracked). Cool 10 minutes. Run knife around edge of pan to loosen; remove cake from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Place cake on serving plate.
• In 1-quart saucepan, heat remaining 1/2 cup chocolate chips, 2 tablespoons butter and the corn syrup over low heat, stirring constantly, until chocolate chips are melted. Spread over top of cake, allowing some to drizzle down side.
• In 1-quart saucepan, melt glaze ingredients over low heat, stirring constantly. Drizzle over top of cake.

WASP'S NEST CAKE

Steps:

• On the stovetop, mix pudding with milk and bring to a boil.
• Dump in box of cake mix.
• Stir and pour into a greased 9x13-inch pan.
• Sprinkle on butterscotch morsels.
• Bake in 350° oven for 30 minutes.
• Let cool; serve.

TRIPLE CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Beat all ingredients except COOL WHIP, semi-sweet chocolate and berries in large bowl with mixer until blended. Pour into 12-cup fluted tube pan or 10-inch tube pan sprayed with cooking spray.
• Bake 50 min. to 1 hour or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan 10 min. Loosen cake from sides of pan; invert onto wire rack. Gently remove pan. Cool cake completely. Transfer to plate.
• Reserve 2 Tbsp. COOL WHIP. Microwave remaining COOL WHIP and chocolate in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 to 2 min. or until chocolate is completely melted and mixture is well blended, stirring after each minute. Drizzle over cake. Immediately drop scant teaspoonfuls of the reserved COOL WHIP around top of cake; draw toothpick through center of each to resemble star. Fill center of cake with berries.