I have been making this cake for years and years and years and still when I ask my husband what he wants for his birthday cake or Father's Day, it is always this cake. It really does taste like Hostess HoHo's.
I decided to change it up a bit because it makes such a huge cake and there is usually only 3 of us....at the most 6. Even at the smaller size it serves at least 8 people. It is quite rich and filling!
The recipe calls for making it in a sheet or jelly roll pan which can serve 20+ people. I decided to try and make it into a regular layer cake, which is more our size. I am still working on perfecting the perfect placement of the cream inside so it is more pleasing to the eye. You won't care how pleasing to the eye it is though once you taste it!
Here is the recipe and then below it I will explain how to make it my NEW way.
HoHo Cake
Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Cake Mix
White
Icing:
5 tblsp.
Flour1 ¼ cup milk
1 cup sugar
½ cup Crisco
½ cup margarine
1 tsp. vanilla
Chocolate
Icing:
3 squares
Unsweetened choc – melted1 egg
1 stick of margarine/butter (1/2 cup) – melted
1 tsp. vanilla
3 cups (1 lb.) powdered sugar
2 ½ tblsp. Hot water
Mix the cake according to box directions and bake in a large cookie sheet for 20 minutes. Cool completely before icing.
White
Icing:
Cook 5
tblsp. flour over med-high with 1 ¼ cup milk until thick. Let cool. Mix into
that, 1 cup of sugar, ½ cup Crisco, ½
cup margarine, and 1 tsp. vanilla. Beat till smooth. Frost cake with icing and refrigerate till
firm – very important.
Chocolate
icing:
Mix all
ingredients till creamy. Spread over top of white icing. If white icing is not
firm enough, it will be very hard to spread the chocolate!
Refrigerate
cake when done. It is best eaten cold.
Oh my gosh! My husband will now be in love with you! That cake looks FABULOUS. Can't wait to copy the recipe and try it.
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Ceil
Hoping over from Marvelous Mondays link party! This cake looks great!
ReplyDeleteThis is looking so rich and delicious. I am a bit jealous of your baking skills. I would not mind having a piece of this!
ReplyDeleteOh my, I think I might be drooling! This looks incredible :) Definitely going to have to try. Thanks for sharing.
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Oooh this looks so good! Pinning! Hope you have a wonderful week!
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Wow, that's a fancy cake! Visiting from Anyonita's linky.
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Love your cake especially if it tastes like Ho Ho's! Thanks for joining us at the Let's Get Social Sunday! Diane @MamaLDiane
ReplyDeleteThis sounds amazing! Looks amazing too! We all love chocolate in my house so I know we would like it. I might request this for my birthday this year. Thanks - Dawn
ReplyDeleteThis looks so good (and I'm not even a dessert person)!! Found you at Anyonita Nibbles.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tasty treat!
Michele
I don't think that's on my diet............
ReplyDeleteI have never had a HOHO but that cake looks pretty delicious.
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You may make a baker of me yet - we'll need to add more activity in our day after a dessert like this! It looks really good.
ReplyDeleteOh my word! That looks so yummy, thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteOoooooh wow. Looks and Sounds yum -mee. And so PINTERESTY! ;)
ReplyDeleteYou've just made my husband's day! I'll be making this cake tomorrow. I found you through the Meet and Greet Hop. Come visit me at Blue Plate Sundays. I'll be back.
ReplyDeleteMmmm looks delicious. Just curious though why there would be flour in the frosting?
ReplyDeleteAnnemarie that cake looks so yummy!!!
ReplyDeleteIt does look an awful lot like a giant hoho! <3 from a fellow CAST member
ReplyDeleteWow, this looks so yummy! I would need the smaller version as well. Have to try this.
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Bev
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This looks amazing! It reminds me more of a large Ding Dong than a HoHo. Thanks for stopping by and linking up to Fluster Buster's Creative Muster Party! Looking forward to seeing what you're going to link up next week.
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AnnMarie,
ReplyDeleteI pinned this recipe for later. I saw your post on Sweet and Savory Sunday.
Annamaria
Totally drool-worthy!!! Found on Sweet & Savoury Sundays :)
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So glad you made it over to Super Sunday! Thanks for linking up and hope we see you next week!
ReplyDeleteOh, I could so go for a slice of this cake! A bigggg slice! :) Thank you so much for linking up with me this week at Tasty Tuesdays! I’ve pinned this & shared it with my followers! Please be sure to stop back by the party and check out some of the other links!
ReplyDeleteI've just posted my Tasty Tuesdays link party on my blog & wanted to tell you that this recipe has been featured! You can find the feature here: http://anyonitanibbles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/cute-clever-treats-for-kids-paleo-kids-snacks.html Don’t forget to grab our features button and link up again!
DeleteNow why did you go and post this girl?! Don't you know I'm trying to lose 20lbs?!
ReplyDeleteThis looks soooooo good. I don't know whether to thank you or smack you!
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