Mint Chocolate Pudding Fudge Cake #SmartFinalSupportsSoCalSchools

Well, it’s been pretty quiet on the recipe front around here. My oven (and my hips) needed a little recovery period.  The wait is over and just in time for all of that holiday baking you’re about to undertake. For me, flavors can really signal the start of a season. Just like pumpkin gets me ready for fall and lemon makes me think of summertime, peppermint cues thoughts of snowy days and stockings hung from mantles.

I found this recipe on All Recipes and it was like at first sight. Deep down I knew it was going to need some extra punch and the addition of mint was the perfect solution. Read on to find out how to make your own slice of heaven!

Ingredients:

Cake

• 3 & 1/3 cups First Street Moist Chocolate Cake Mix
• 1 (3.9 oz.) pkg. instant chocolate pudding mix
• 1 c. sour cream
• 1 c. First Street Milk
• 1/2 c. vegetable oil
• 1/2 c. water
• 4 eggs
• 1 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 c. mint pieces

Chocolate Glaze and Decorations

• 6 tbsp. butter
• 1 c. semisweet chocolate chips
• mint pieces and First Street Dark Chocolate Sprinkles as needed

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 10 inch bundt pan.

2. In a large bowl, combine First Street cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, First Street milk, oil, water, and eggs. Beat for 4 minutes, them mix in the chocolate chips and mint chips.

3. Pour batter in to prepared pan.Bake in the preheated oven for 40-50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. {Side note: This was the first time using my bundt pan and I’m still working out the kinks of a new pan. Or the kinks of a faulty user. Whatev.}

See how the top of my cake fell off? If yours does too I won’t judge. The cake will still look the same. I semi-promise.

4. To make the glaze: Melt the butter and 1 cup of chocolate chips in a double boiler or microwave oven. Stir until smooth and drizzle over the cake. Add as little or as many extra mint chips and First Street Dark Chocolate Chips as you’d like.

5. Enjoy your masterpiece! I can vouch that it tastes absolutely fantastic warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. Yum!

Did you know Smart & Final First Street products are part of the California Milk Advisory Board “Help Our Teachers, Help Our Kids” promotion? Students & families collect Real California milk seals from select First Street products, then teachers submit seals. Each seal counts as one sweepstakes entry. Teachers who submit 100 seals get 25 Scholastic books or $25 school supply gift card. Each teacher entrant gets one Scholastic book. How awesome is that?!?

The California Milk Advisory Board is going to announce winners in February, BUT Smart & Final is so awesome that they’re doing a separate sweepstakes! Entrants who go to FirstStreetSupportsSoCalSchools.com and tell why their Southern California school should win will be entered to win $500, $300 or $200 to be donated to the school of their choice EVERY MONTH!

That’s right, there will be a total of NINE winners, 3 per month, from those that enter at the site! Follow updates about the contest on Twitter with the hashtag: #SmartFinalSupportsSoCalSchools.

This project has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for #collectivebias #CBias, but all opinions and ideas are 100% mine.

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