Nana's Chocolate Chip Cake

This is a cake recipe that's always really popular wherever I take it, and the hardest part is getting it out of the pan (and making it last long after it's out).

INGREDIENTS:

•1 box of Yellow Cake mix (we use Betty Crocker, but you don't have to)

•1 small package instant chocolate pudding mix (small being the 3.9 or 4oz box)

•3/4 cup water

•3/4 cup vegetable oil

•3 eggs

•8oz sour cream

•1 tsp vanilla extract

•3/4 cup chocolate chips (this is a recommended amount. Follow your heart for proper amounts of chocolate chips, always)

INSTRUCTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350°F/~177°C

Mix all of the ingredients together, except chocolate chips. Once mixed smooth, fold in the chocolate chips.

Pour into a greased Bundt pan. You can dust with flour, but the flour will discolour the outside of the cake so, while it will still taste delicious, it won't look as pretty. If you don't have Crisco or some other form of baking grease/shortening on hand, my mom has used cooking spray with mixed results as well.

Bake for 45 minutes, or until the cake starts to pull away from the sides of the pan slightly. The toothpick test (supposedly) doesn't really work with this because of the chocolate chips, but I always do it anyways because it's easy to tell the difference between batter and melted chocolate chips in my opinion. And also I get to lick the toothpick. Or butter knife.

I usually end up losing a little off of the top when I pull this out of the pan, but people are usually too busy eating it to care what it looks like. Just make sure to wait 1 or 2 hours before trying to remove the cake, so it has time to cool. Otherwise, you'll end up with a giant mess.

I've also been told that it's important that everyone know that the titular Nana is from the south, so it's pronounced "Nah-Nah".

(This was cross posted into r/easyrecipes and r/cookingforbeginners . Please let me know if this isn't okay, and happy baking everyone! ❤️)

bon appetit