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Amazing Tunnel Cake Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Cake:
  • Make chocolate syrup
  • Position rack in lower third of oven; preheat to 350 degrees. Grease 10 x 4-inch tube or 12-cup bundt pan; dust with flour
  • In a medium bowl, whisk or stir together flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside
  • In a large bowl, and using electric beaters, cream butter until light and smooth. Add sugar in several addtions, beating until mixture is light and fluffy. Slowly pour in beaten eggs, beating until mixture is light, fluffy, and smooth. Beat in vanilla.
  • Using a large rubber spatula, alternately stir in dry ingredients and milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients, and blending well after each addition. Pour two thirds of the batter into prepared pan, spreading evenly.
  • Add baking soda to Chocolate syrup; stir thoroughly. Pour chocolate syrup into remaining batter, blending thoroughly. Pour chocolate batter over vanilla batter, spreading evenly. do not stir batters together.
  • Bake 50 to 55 minutes. Remove pan to wire rack. Cool 10 mintues before lossening cake from pan with a knife and removing. Finish cooling on the rack. If desired, pour warm chocolate glaze over the cake, letting it run down the sides, or dust with confectioners' sugar.
  • Chocolate Syrup:
  • Combine sugar, cocoa powder, corn syrup, and the water in a small, heavy saucepan. cook and stir over low heat until completely blended; simmer 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir vanilla. Cool to room temperature before using.
  • Yield: about 3/4 cup
  • Chocloate Glaze:
  • Combine chocolate, butter, sugar, corn syrup, and salt in a small, heavy saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring occassionally until chocolate and butter melt and sugar dissolves.
  • Combine heavy cream and cornstarch in a measuring cup, stirring until well blended. Pour into chocolate mixture; cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture begins to boil. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla. Cool glazein pan 5 minutes, stirring occassionally, before pouring over cooked cake.
  • Yield: about 3/4 cup

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