4 eggs1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 cups sour cream
1 (18 oz.) pkg. chocolate cake mix--Devil's food or Fudge
1/2 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Mix all ingredients with mixer until fluffy. Prepare bundt pan by using shortening or butter to wipe into all cracks and crevices with paper towl or pastry brush. Use a few Tbl. of all-purpose flour to tap around in the pan until everything is well-coated. Dump out excess flour. Pour batter into pan and bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 min. until edges are darkened and pulling away from sides and center cracks don't look wet or gooey. Allow to cool in pan for 15 min.
Trick for removing cake from bundt pan: (I've never had success at a bundt cake releasing cleanly from the pan until I found this trick. If you don't have a problem with it releasing, you don't have to do this.) While cake is starting to cool, put a large pot of water on stove to boil. Put a large towel, folded into bottom of sink. When water is boiling, pour it onto the towel. Quickly place pan with cake onto the towel (so the bottom of the cake pan is sitting in a soppy, wet towel). Time for one minute. Take cake pan off of towel and use a knife to barely loosen edges around cake. Put a cooling rack over the top of the cake pan and invert the pan.
Chocolate Ganache:
2/3 cup heavy cream
1 Tbl. butter
6 oz. (a little less than 1 cup) semi-sweet chocolate chips or shavings
1 Tbl. corn syrup
Bring cream to boil over med-low heat, stirring. Put chocolate, corn syrup, and butter in separate bowl. Pour hot cream over other ingredients. Let sit for 5 min. and then whisk until smooth. Place cooled cake on serving platter. Immediately pour ganache over cooled cake, letting it drizzle down sides. If you don't want to pour entire amount of ganache over cake, keep a small amount of ganache to drizzle on individual slices of cake once it is cut. Make sure to serve each piece with a shmear of ganache, whether from sides of cake or separate container. Serve cake with fresh whipped cream or ice cream. If covered, this cake stays nice for a few days...yum!
