Over-the-Top" Chocolate Passion

Over-the-Top" Chocolate Passion might be a good recipe to expand your hor d'oeuvre recipe box. This recipe serves 16. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains approximately 9g of protein, 31g of fat, and a total of 869 calories. If you have vanillan extract, water, granulated sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 39 minutes.

Instructions

Beat cake mix, 1/2 cup oil, 1 1/3 cups water, and 3 eggs at low speed with an electric mixer 1 minute, scraping bowl constantly.

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Cake Mix

Water

Egg

Cooking Oil

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Pour batter into 2 (9-inch) round cakepans coated with butter-flavored cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

Butter

Bake at 350 for 28 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes.

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Oven

Remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks.

Stir together brownie mix, remaining 1/2 cup oil, 2 eggs, and 3 tablespoons water in a medium bowl until well blended.

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Brownie Mix

Water

Egg

Cooking Oil

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Bowl

Spread in a 9-inch round cakepan coated with cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

Spread

Bake at 350 for 35 minutes. Cool completely in pan; run a knife around pan to loosen.

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Oven

Knife

Frying Pan

Bake cookies according to package directions at 350 for 10 minutes. (Cookies will be soft.) Cool cookies on baking sheet 2 minutes before removing from baking sheet.

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Remove cookies to wire racks; cool completely.

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Stir together flour and 1 tablespoon cocoa. Rub shortening and 1/3 cup sugar together in a medium bowl with back of a wooden spoon until blended. Gradually add milk, vanilla, and flour mixture, beating until smooth.

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Shortening

Vanilla

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Milk

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Wooden Spoon

Bowl

Pour into a 9-inch round cakepan coated with cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

Stir together 1/2 cup brown sugar and remaining 2 tablespoons cocoa until blended; sprinkle over batter. Carefully pour boiling water over sugar mixture. (Do not stir.)

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Brown Sugar

Cocoa Powder

Sugar

Water

Bake at 350 for 40 minutes or until top looks thickened and set. Cool pudding cake completely in pan.

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Oven

Frying Pan

Rinse strawberries, and pat dry.

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Strawberries

Place 1 cup chocolate morsels in a small bowl. Microwave at HIGH 1 minute; stir until smooth. Carefully dip strawberries in chocolate to coat.

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Chocolate Chips

Strawberries

Chocolate

Dip

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Microwave

Bowl

Place on a large plate covered with wax paper. Chill until chocolate is firm.

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Chocolate

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Wax Paper

Place brownie layer on a serving plate. Loosen edges of pudding cake with a narrow flexible spatula, and invert onto brownie layer. (Don't worry if pudding cake layer doesn't come out of pan in one piece. Carefully place pieces together in 1 layer on top of brownie layer. When the cake is assembled, this layer resembles frosting between the layers.)

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Frosting

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Spatula

Frying Pan

Place 1 cake layer over pudding cake layer; press gently. Thinly spread cake layer with frosting.

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Frosting

Spread

Place about 5 cookies in a single layer over frosting. Thinly spread bottoms of remaining cookies with frosting.

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Frosting

Spread

Place cookies, frosted side down, on top of each other in even layers. (Do not allow cookies to extend beyond edges of cake layer. Trim cookies with scissors if necessary, so they do not extend beyond edges.)

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Kitchen Scissors

Spread top cookie layer with about 1/2 cup frosting (you should have a little more than 1 can of frosting left).

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Frosting

Spread

Place remaining cake layer over frosting, pressing down gently. Thinly frost top of cake layer and sides of all layers with remaining frosting.

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Frosting

Sprinkle remaining chocolate morsels on cake. Cover and chill at least 2 hours.

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Chocolate Chips

Before serving, sift powdered sugar over morsels. Arrange chocolate-covered strawberries on top of cake.

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Powdered Sugar

Strawberries

Chocolate

Serve with Strawberry Sauce, if desired. Store cake in refrigerator.

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Strawberry Sauce

Note: For testing purposes only, we used Pillsbury Ready-to-

Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies, Betty Crocker Super

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Oven

Moist Chocolate Fudge Cake

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Chocolate

Fudge

Mix, Betty Crocker Walnut Supreme Brownie

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Walnuts

Mix, and Betty Crocker Creamy Chocolate Frosting. If you use a different brand of brownie mix, make brownies by the "fudgelike" directions and bake according to times and temperatures for a 9-inch square pan.

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Chocolate Frosting

Brownie Mix

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Oven

Frying Pan

Tip: Cake, brownie layer, cookies, and Strawberry Sauce can be made ahead. Assembled cake keeps well for several days and is better if chilled overnight.

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Strawberry Sauce

*You can use homemade cookies. Just reduce baking time slightly so cookies will be soft. Cookies should be about 2 1/4 inches in diameter.

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