New recipe for tunnel of fudge cake released by pillsbury. Place milk in pan and whisk in pudding, cook until comes to a boil, 45 minutes. A chocolate cake made with nuts that creates its own fudgy center as it bakes. This is the taste sections favorite version of the tunnel of fudge cake. By hand, stir in flour, frosting mix and nuts until well blended. Gradually add sugar, continue beating at high speed until light and fluffy. The cake will begin to sink, but thats ok thats the tunnel of fudge. In a small bowl, whisk together the cocoa powder and melted butter. The legendary tunnel of fudge cake in a cast iron bundt pan. Even the editors of cooks illustrated, who routinely develop complicated recipes, concluded, traditional fudge with its slightly grainy. In a medium bowl, pour the boiling water over the chopped chocolate.
The original recipe relied on a nowdefunct ingredient. The original recipe from the 17th annual bakeoff cookbook calls for a product that is no longer in. Tunnel of fudge cake, plus a brief history of the bundt pan recipe cook the book. The walnutfilled, chocolateglazed cake had a ring of gooey fudge at its center. This recipe, arguably the recipe most closely identified with the bakeoff contest, mysteriously develops a tunnel of fudge filling as it bakes. Tunnel of fudge cake tunnel of fudge cake is a cake with a fudge and nut centre baked in a bundt pan. In 1966, she came in 2nd place in the annual pillsbury bakeoff competition with the tunnel of fudge cake, a chocolatenut bundt cake that seemingly magically baked with a fudgy center. Remove from heat and stir in chips and butter until smooth and thick. Use a pastry brush to evenly coat the inside of a 12 cup bundt pan. The originator of the tunnel of fudge cake recipe was a woman named ella helfrich, who entered this chocolate cake recipe into the pillsbury bake. The perfect cake is the new authoritative source, featuring essentials like perfectly domed pound cake and superlatively chocolaty ultimate chocolate cupcakes, but also modern flavor profiles and techniques with a simple but impressive tahini banana snack cake and a nakedsided multilayer blackberrylemon mascarpone cake. The only perfect tunnel of fudge cake recipe i can find it came from a 1950s flour package.
While cake is baking, place a small saucepan over medium heat and combine orange juice, lemon juice and sugar. It originally required pillsbury double dutch fudge frosting mix, which was later discontinued by pillsbury. A blog about healthy and quick weeknight meals along with delicious decadent desserts. Tunnel of fudge cake, plus a brief history of the bundt pan recipe. Ive kept my mothers pillsbury bake off cake cook book, circa 1969. Cream butter in large mixing bowl at high speed of mixer. In 2004, the times presented an adaptation of that recipe with the help of shirley corriher, a biochemist and the author of cookwise and bakewise, books. Tunnel of fudge cake was made famous by the pillsbury bakeoff. Recipe from cooks illustrated entertaining, holiday 2010. Tunnel of fudge cake was the 1966 pillsbury bakeoff runner up and is still popular today.
See more ideas about food recipes, cooks illustrated recipes and americas test kitchen. Bake for about 45 minutes or until the edges of the cake begin to pull away from the pan. Eating a slice was reminiscent of indulging in underbaked brownie batter. Allow the cake to cool in the pan on a wire rack for 1 12 hours. But that didnt mean this historic cake needed to be out of production too. Then, in 1966, a woman named ella helfrich took second place in the annual pillsbury bakeoff with her recipe for tunnel of fudge cake. The original tunneloffudge cake won second place in the 1966 pillsbury bakeoff contest for the late ella rita helfrich of houston.