I was just way too curious to ignore Millie’s recipe for “Better Than Sex Cake“. I knew as soon as I transcribed it that I would be making it. So I did. And holy smokes it’s a pretty ALL CAPS kind of cake situation.
You know how you eat some cakes and they are all light and fluffy and you sort of entertain the idea of going back for another slice because, well for goodness sakes the first slice was just so delicate and wispy? Um, yeah. This is NOT one of those cakes. This is a cake that is basically a meal.
It’s served out of a bundt dish, which just looks, er, inappropriate considering the name of the cake (what? My mind went there.) and bundt cakes are typically denser. No need to frost these cake daddies. Just slice and serve. And you should know that no matter how thinly you slice this cake it will be a hunk of cake on your plate. (a hunk!! get it!! Sex! hunk!! um….)
I’ll spare you the obvious jokes about how sore your arm will get from stirring this incredibly dense batter of cake mix, pudding, melted German chocolate, sour cream, nuts (I used walnuts), and chocolate chips. I omitted the coconuts because unless it’s on a Girlscout cookie I don’t eat coconut.
The taste? It’s nummy. And after the first bite you do realize that maybe you should have had salad instead of lasagna for supper. There is a lot of stuff happening inside the cake and so your mind goes into overdrive tagging each flavor. I had a moment mid bite where my brain went, “oh! Pudding!”
So is it “Better than sex”? – Like I alluded to in my title, sadly, this is a one-sided review and I’m sure ya’ll do not want me to compare it the S-E-X. I’ll just say it’s a damn fine cake and I didn’t freak out when I saw it hanging out in the kitchen the next morning.
Better Than Sex Cake
1 small box of vanilla pudding
1 box yellow cake mix
4 eggs
1 pkg german chocolate (melted)
12 oz pkg semi sweet choc chips
1 small box sour cream 8 oz
1 cup coconut
1 cup nuts
½ c oil
½ c water
Mix cake mix, eggs, oil & water
Then add all other ingredients
Bake at 325 – 45 minutes
Bundt or tube pan
So let’s just gloss over the adorable fact that Millie had this recipe (and it was obviously something made often from the state of the hand-written recipe, on the back of an envelope of course). I did an internet search to see what else was out there in the world of “Better than Sex” desserts and it turns out that most of the recipes found start with a chocolate cake base instead of a yellow cake base.
Paula Deen’s recipe features crushed pineapple and no chocolate. There are actually several cakes out there with this name and many are chocolate, caramel and condensed milk- which, damn, doesn’t that sound good? But Millie’s recipe has a lot of very specific elements to it and after three pages of recipe hunting online I started to find variations using yellow cake mix and touting it as the “original” Better Than Sex Cake recipe… so there you go.
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Mmm…cake. Okay, I’m sold.
My favorite part of this? The last line about it hanging out in the kitchen, LOL.
Mmmmmmm, cake. I agree with Genevieve. The line about not freaking out when you saw it hanging out in the kitchen the next morning is priceless.
If you like incredibly dense, incredibly delicious cake, you’ll have to check out the German Apple cake recipe I’m going to post later (later as in the next day or two).
How did those ridges happen????
I finally went to the store and bought the German chocolate, so I’m making this today, although the anticipation has hopefully increased my eventual enjoyment…
Oh hells yeah. This is the recipe I printed out that I talked about on Twitter. I think I’m gonna make next weekend for Easter dinner. Only because I want to see the look on my MIL’s face when I tell her the name of the cake. heh.
HA! Hanging out in your kitchen the next morning. Great. Love it. This is very different from other recipes I’ve seen by the same name. Looks like it is definitely worth a try!
Cali you are killing my pathetic attempts at attempting to diet.
Deb: it’s a rose-shaped bundt pan, and either it is vintage or they’ve started making them new. A good tribute to the era of the recipe, anyway.
mmmmmm MUST HAVE THIS CAKE SOON. This will motivate me to lose another 10 at WW so I can splurge.
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