Chocolate cake with pour
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Modern Bakers Are Eluded By One Beloved Chocolate Cake
BY Zoë Lourey-Christianson
One of the most memorable recipes to come from the Pillsbury Bake-Off was the Tunnel of Fudge cake, a chocolate nut cake baked in a bundt cake pan with a gooey chocolate center.
Unfortunately, the cake is almost impossible to recreate today due to one very important and discontinued ingredient: Two Layer Size Double Dutch Fudge Buttercream Frosting Mix.
Replacing the special Pillsbury frosting has stumped many modern bakers. You'd be hard-pressed to find a food blogger who claims to have found a perfect copycat recipe.
Even the recipe on the Pillsbury website differs from creator Ella Helfrich's original, which you can find in 1966's "Pillsbury Busy Lady Bake-Off Recipes."
The recipe is tricky because it's structurally challenging, too. It has to be strong enough to support that ribbon of dense, gooey fudge and be fluffy and moist like any good cake.