Pecan Pie Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) yellow cake mix (i used one with pudding mix in it)
• 8 tablespoons butter, melted
• 4 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups light corn syrup
• 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 cups chopped pecans (the original recipe said to toast the pecans, but i didn't)
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2 mix together cake mix, melted butter, and 1 egg. blend for 1 to 2 minutes. the batter will be very thick - more like cookie dough. reserve 2/3 cup of batter.
• 3 pat remaining batter in bottom of 13x9 inch pan.
• 4 bake for about 15 minutes or until crust is light brown and puffs up. remove from oven and cool on a rack for 10 minutes. leave the oven on.
• 5 mix together reserved batter, corn syrup, brown sugar, remaining 3 eggs, and vanilla. blend on low for 1 minute. scrape down sides of bowl with a spatula. mix at medium speed until well combined and blended. there will first be little chunks of the cake mix batter. mix well until those chunks disappear.
• 6 fold in pecans and chocolate chips.
• 7 pour mixture on top of partially cooked batter and smooth it out with a spatula. return pan to oven.
• 8 bake cake until edges are brown but cetner is still a bit soft - 40-45 minutes.
• 9 remove from oven and cook on a rack for 30 minutes.