Tunnel of Fudge Cake
From peetabear 5 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 16
This recipe, arguably the recipe most closely identified with the Bake-Off® Contest, mysteriously develops a "tunnel of fudge" filling as it bakes. Don't scrimp on the nuts, or it won't work! Ella Rita Helfrich TX Bake-Off® Contest 17, 1966
Ingredients
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- 1 3/4 cups sugar shopping list
- 1 3/4 cups margarine or butter, softened shopping list
- 6 eggs shopping list
- 2 cups powdered sugar shopping list
- 2 1/4 cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose or unbleached flour shopping list
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa shopping list
- 2 cups chopped walnuts* shopping list
- glaze shopping list
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar shopping list
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa shopping list
- 4 to 6 teaspoons milk shopping list
How to make it
- Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 12-cup fluted tube cake pan or 10-inch tube pan. In large bowl, combine sugar and margarine; beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually add 2 cups powdered sugar; blend well. By hand, stir in flour and remaining cake ingredients until well blended. Spoon batter into Bake at 350°F. for 45 to 50 minutes or until top is set and edges are beginning to pull away from sides of pan.** Cool upright in pan on wire rack 1 1/2 hours. Invert onto serving plate; cool at least 2 hours.greased and floured pan; spread evenly.
- In small bowl, combine all glaze ingredients, adding enough milk for desired drizzling consistency. Spoon over top of cake, allowing some to run down sides. Store tightly covered.
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WONDERFUL and a HIGH 5 !!!!
lanacountry
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Great name for a dessert!
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mmmm. this is a winner. I love the secret tunnel. Thanks for the great post. It's a"5"..
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