Happy Birthday Harry Potter!

In honor of Harry Potter's Birthday on July 31st, I decided to make a cake. (for those of you that really know me, there was another reason for baking the cake ;) but I just couldn't pass up the Harry Potter mania).

Hopefully the photo and the recipe will intrigue you to try this fabulous cake. It is so good, so chocolatey, that it may be my new favorite chocolate cake recipe.

Triple Chocolate Bliss Cake
from Kraft Foods

Prep Time: 20 min
Total Time: 2 hr min
Makes: 18 servings, one slice each

1 pkg. (2-layer size) chocolate cake mix
1 cup BREAKSTONE'S or KNUDSEN Sour Cream
1 pkg. (4-serving size) JELL-O Chocolate Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
4 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup water
3 cups thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, divided
1 pkg. (8 squares) BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate
1-1/2 cups raspberries

PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Lightly grease 12-cup fluted tube pan or 10-inch tube pan. Beat all ingredients except whipped topping, chocolate and raspberries in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed just until moistened. Beat on medium speed 2 min. scraping bowl occasionally. Pour into prepared pan.

BAKE 50 min. to 1 hour or until wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 min. Loosen cake from side of pan with knife or metal spatula and gently remove cake. Cool cake completely on wire rack. Place on serving plate.

RESERVE 2 Tbsp. of the whipped topping. Microwave remaining whipped topping and chocolate in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 to 2 min. or until chocolate is completely melted and mixture is well blended, stirring after each min. Drizzle over cake. Immediately drop reserved whipped topping, by scant teaspoonfuls, around top of cake; create star shape by drawing wooden toothpick through middle several times. Spoon raspberries into center of cake. Store leftover cake in refrigerator.

Note: I did not bother with the reserved whipped topping or the raspberries. Plus if you forget to pull out the Cool Whip to thaw, no worries as you need to microwave it until it is liquid anyway.

NUTRITION INFORMATION

Nutrition (per serving)
Calories 340 Total fat 20g Saturated fat 8g Cholesterol 55mg Sodium 360mg Carbohydrate 39g Dietary fiber 2g Protein 5g Vitamin A 4%DV Vitamin C 4%DV Calcium 8%DV Iron 15%DV