Layered Chocolate Cake

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package german chocolate cake mix
• 1 1/3 cups water
• 3 eggs
• 1/3 cup canola oil
• 1 (3 ounce) package vanilla pudding mix (cook-and-serve)
• 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
• 2 cups milk
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 3 tablespoons baking cocoa
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f, then grease a 15"x10" baking pan.
• 2 in a large bowl, stir together cake mix, water, eggs & oil until well combined.
• 3 pour into the prepared pan & bake 23-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• 4 cool in the pan on a wire rack.
• 5 in a large saucepan, combine pudding mix, gelatin & milk, cooking according to the package directions for pudding. cool.
• 6 when cake has cooled, cut it into three 10"x5" rectangles, placing one on a serving platter & spreading half of the pudding mixture over the top of it. repeat this layering, then top that off with the 3rd layer of cake.
• 7 in a large bowl, beat cream cheese & butter until fluffy, then beat in the sugar & cocoa & then the vanilla until smooth.
• 8 frost top & sides of the cake. store in the refrigerator.