Whopper Chocolate Cake: CRAZY COOKING CHALLENGE

CRAZY COOKING CHALLENGE #6

Whopper Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Almond Buttercream

Welcome to challenge #6 of the CRAZY COOKING CHALLENGE. I know this linky party and challenge is going to be A-MAZ-ING!!! Chocolate! What could be better then CHOCOLATE? This month bloggers all over the world have made, baked and then blogged about a Chocolate Cake. It just makes me SMILE when I think of all of the people around the world who got to enjoy eating the chocolate cakes that were made! That's even more A-MAZ-ING!!!

I know my family and friends ENJOYED my Whopper Chocolate Cake.

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Now, onto the chocolate cake recipe I picked to make for this challenge. I had seen this wonderful whopper cake when it came across Pinterest, of course I saved it. When this Chocolate Cake challenge came up, I knew this would be the perfect recipe (except I never really looked at the recipe until the day before I went to make my said cake.. more on that story coming up). My sister's birthday party was just around the corner, so now I had the perfect cake and a perfect reason to make the cake (this way my family and I would not have to indulge all by ourselves, even though we could of totally polished off this cake, no problem).

Now, for the cake story, the blog that made this great looking cake with Whoppers on it is Urbane Fruits which is written by Sonja and to my surprise the blog is based in London (hence the food measurements were not what I was use too). I went to try and bake this cake and I could not figure out the conversions, I guess maybe if I took a little more time I could of tried to convert them, but I really did not even know where to start, and this cake was so AWESOME I knew that I couldn't give up. I really wanted to make it. I remembered another blog that had a chocolate cake recipe on it which was Kevin and Amanda Blog with The Best Chocolate Cake and then since I wanted Chocolate Frosting I went a searchin' again and came across this via Pinterest Chocolate Buttercream Frosting from Savory Sweet Life. Okay, now my cake was complete. It took three blogs and three recipes, but the results were OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD!

Whopper Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Almond Buttercream Frosting

cake idea from Urbane Fruits and cake recipe from Kevin and Amanda Blog 

1 box Devil Food Cake Mix
1 pkg instant chocolate pudding mix (larger box)
1 cup sour cream
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups mini chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350. In a very large bowl, mix together everything except chocolate chips. Batter will be thick. Stir in the chocolate chips. Pour batter into cake pan of choice (normally 2 round cake pans, so you can frost the middle). For cooking time use the back of the box directions and maybe add about 10 minutes. Use the toothpick method.

Chocolate Almond Buttercream Frosting
frosting found at Savory Sweet Life

1 cup unsalted butter (softened, not melted)

3-1/2 cups powdered sugar

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp almond extract

4 tbsp heavy whipping cream

Cream butter for a few minutes in a mixer with the paddle attachment on medium speed. Sift 3 cups of powdered sugar and cocoa into a mixing bowl. Turn your mixer on the lowest speed, add in the sift ingredients until it is absorbed by the butter. Increase mixer speed to medium and add almond extract, salt, and heavy cream; beat for 3 minutes.

To decorate the Whopper Cake, you will need two (12 oz) boxes of Whoppers and some gold dust from a cake store. The first thing you need to do is sprinkle the cake with the gold dust, this helps the Whoppers stick and not slide. I began with a center strip of Whoppers from left to right and continued row by row. Your ULTIMATE Chocolate Cake is now complete.

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Whopper Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting!