Peggy Cake aka The Birthday Cake

This is the LEGENDARY Peggy cake, staple and standard of the Seidel family, requested and required at every birthday - and then some!

Serves 12-16 VEG

Ingredients

  • 1 German chocolate cake mix (I use Duncan Hines with pudding in the mix)
  • 1 small box instant chocolate pudding
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup warm water
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions

  1. Mix all ingredients adding chips last. Grease and flour a bundt pan. Add cake dough. Bake at 350 for 40-50 minutes. Make sure toothpick inserted in crack of cake comes out clean upon testing. Rest cake in pan for 5 min. Turn out on cooling rack. When cool, dust with powdered sugar.

Notes

  • also makes delicious cupcakes!
  • Can substitute cake mix with yellow cake and/or can substitute pudding with butterscotch.

Source: Peggy