need a "tunnel of fudge" cake recipe

[tastycakes]

from scratch please!!

[choctastic]

This month's ~Cooks Country actually has a recipe for tunnel of fudge cake. Apparently, the original tunnel of fudge cake used the frosting mix that was discontinued so you can't use the original recipe.

[alkapal]

choctastic --that is also my understanding; it was the frosting product that was the "tunnel of fudge."

[Quine]

The "from scratch"note is sorta interesting, as I believe this was a VERY popular long ago winner of the Pillsbury Bake-off!

A google produced this link: http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0...

[tastycakes]

thank you, i had no idea this was originally a scratch recipe. i remembered the pillsbury part, but sadly enough the name conjures up images of boxed cake mixes now.

[Quine]

It is not a from scratch recipe...the Pillsbury bake-off is a contest where you must use their product as part of the recipe! Tunnel of Fudge is a cake box recipe.

the "from scratch" recipes are "reverse engineering"?

[cookie monster]

I don't think that's quite right - Pillsbury's products include flour, sugar, butter, nuts . . . so I'm pretty sure you can satisfy the bake-off rules with a "from scratch" recipe. I have a Pillsbury cookie cookbook which includes a number of bake-off winning recipes that don't rely on mixes.

[The Dairy Queen]

The recipe calls for Pillsbury flour--here's a link to Pillsbury's own website with the recipe posted: http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/show...

Incidentally, Pillsbury was a Minneapolis based company and the inventor of the bundt cake pan was Nordic Ware, also a Minnesota-based company.

~TDQ

[chowser]

They have an odd assortment of rules but you can use Pillsbury flour and Land o' Lakes butter, Domino sugar and satisfy the rules.

[Quine]

re "Tunnel of Fudge: recipe and bundt pans, perhaps this article will be of interest.

http://www.thefoodmaven.com/diary/arc...

[The Dairy Queen]

Fascinating! The recipe only won second place. I wonder what the first place winner was that year? Funny that the no-longer available frosting was the Pillsbury ingredient, not the Pillsbury flour.

Next week, November 15, is apparently National Bundt Pan Day (who decides these things)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundt_cake If only I weren't on a diet, I could celebrate by making a tunnel of fudge cake. I wouldn't suppose there's a "lite" version out there? Maybe a tunnel of fruit angel cake of some sort? HA!

~TDQ