Decadent Chocolate Delight

This recipe comes courtesy of a cookbook I forgot I had.  It’s called Rival Crock Pot Slow Cooker Recipes for All Occasions.

Ingredients:

• 1 box of chocolate cake mix (about 18 oz.)
• 1 cup (8 oz) sour cream
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1 cup water
• 4 eggs
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 pkg (4 serving size) instant chocolate pudding mix

Directions:

1. Grease the inside of your slow cooker using either butter or non-stick cooking spray.
2. Combine cake mix, sour cream, chocolate chips, water, eggs, oil, and pudding mix in the slow cooker.  Mix it up well.
   
3. Put the cover on the slow cooker.  Cook either on low for 6-8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours.
   

Verdict:

The hardest part of this recipe was greasing the slow cooker and counting to four.  The finished product was much better looking than that picture suggests.  When dished up, it looked like really crumbly cake.  I would love to know what part sour cream played in this recipe, since that ingredient took me completely by surprise.  This dessert tasted a lot like regular cake, but more moist.  I ate it with ice cream, but I think some kind of custard poured over the top would be absolutely amazing.  I’ll have to see if I can find some sort of simple recipe along those lines.

I would definitely make this again as a quick prep dessert, and I might play around with the flavors of cake, pudding, and chips to see what other tasty combinations I could make.