Too Much Chocolate Cake with Satin Chocolate Glaze

I've been craving cake all week.  I made Apple Cinnamon Muffins on Sunday, and Dangerously Delicious Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins on Tuesday, but it just didn't do the trick.  So, yesterday I turned to my all-time favourite, AllRecipes.com, and found this recipe for Too Much Chocolate Cake.  Looked easy - a doctored box cake.  It has an average rating of 5 stars and over 3,000 reviews.  Yep, that was my recipe for the day.

I ended up making some significant changes to it that really changed the taste of the cake, so for the original recipe click on the link above, and here's the modified recipe that I used:

1 (18.25 ounce) package devil's food cake mix
1 (5.9 ounce) package instant banana pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 mashed ripe banana
1/2 cup no-sugar added apple sauce
3 large eggs, beaten
1/2 cup warm water
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 tsp flour

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a large bowl, mix together the cake and pudding mixes, sour cream, oil, banana, apple sauce, beaten eggs and water. 
3. Lightly coat the chocolate chips with a teaspoon of flour and stir the chocolate chips into the batter and pour batter into a well greased 12 cup bundt pan.
4. Bake for 25 minutes at 350.  Turn oven down to 300 F and continue to bake for 40 minutes or until top is springy to the touch and a wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool cake thoroughly in pan at least an hour and a half before inverting onto a plate.

As per a suggestion in many of the reviews, I used the recipe for the Satiny Chocolate Glaze (also found on Allrecipes.com).  I was expecting it to be thin and runny (as I think the word glaze suggests), but it was thick and creamy - I think I'd use it again.

The result - a VERY rich, INCREDIBLY moist, and slightly banana-y cake - so decadent, you'll want to pour yourself a tall glass of cold milk to go along with this.  Have at it - it's one of the tastiest treats you'll ever make with a boxed cake mix.