2-3 Hershey Milk Chocolate Bars (The ones that come in the package of 6)
2-3 Hershey Milk Chocolate Bars (The ones that come in the package of 6)
2 cups sugar
½ lb butter or margarine (= 2 sticks)
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2½ cups all purpose flour (do NOT use self rising flour)
1 cup buttermilk
½ tsp baking soda
Powdered Sugar & sifter (optional)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 300°F
Spray bundt pan with Bakers’ Joy or other floured spray
Tip: you can use any spray but be sure to lightly flour the pan after spraying or the cake will stick to pan!
Melt Hershey bars and Hershey syrup in double boiler, set aside & keep warm
In mixer, Cream together sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla. Mix in flour & baking soda ALTERNATELY with buttermilk
Mix in melted chocolate until blended
Pour into greased/floured bundt pan
Bake at 300°F for 1 ¾ - 2 hours
Tip: Test for doneness: Toothpick should come out fairly clean
Remove from oven, Let cool 10 min
Flip onto serving plate and pull off bundt pan
After completely cool, sprinkle with sifted powdered sugar
Tip: if some of cake sticks to pan, the powdered sugar will hide the missing layer. Store in refrigerator to keep longer
It’s a bundt cake that my mother usually makes at Christmas time, and you’d better grab your slice of this cake before dinner even starts because it disappears quickly! My father and I always conspire to get the two biggest pieces. I’d like to say that it’s a recipe with my family’s special stamp on it, but my mother claims that she pulled it off the back of a Hershey’s syrup can back in the 1960’s. Nonetheless, it is a delicious cake that has comforting memories attached to it for me. And as it turns out, this cake reminds John Baute of home too.
For Thanksgiving this year, Lee & I went over to John & Cyndi Baute’s house. I walked in with the cake carrier and John asked, “Whatcha got in there?” When I said, “Oh, it’s a Hershey Cake”, his eyes lit up like he was a child on Christmas morning. As it turns out, his grandmother used to make this same cake (she must have bought the Hershey’s syrup can too) and John just loved it. She passed away 10 years ago and he hadn’t had it since. He’s been quizzing his family to try and find the recipe, but never could find it. Now he can have it anytime he wants. I hope that this recipe creates more fond memories of home for others
Originally Submitted
12/30/2007
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