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Homemade Ding Dongs

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Description

These cream-filled chocolate cakes taste like the kind you can buy at the store, only better!

Ingredients

  • 1 package (18 To 21 Oz. Box) Devil's Food Cake Mix
  • 1-⅓ cup Water
  • ½ cups Vegetable Oil
  • 3 whole Eggs
  • 1 container (8 Oz.) Frozen Whipped Topping, Thawed
  • 1 pound Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
  • 4 Tablespoons Butter, Room Temperature
  • 1 cup Heavy Cream
  • 2 Tablespoons Corn Syrup

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare cake mix according to package directions, using the water, oil, and eggs. Spread batter into a greased 11×17 inch cookie sheet. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool completely. Using a round cookie or biscuit cutter, cut rounds from cake. Slice rounds in half horizontally. Using a kitchen teaspoon (the kind you eat with, not the kind you measure with), put a generous teaspoon of whipped topping onto the center of one cake round. Top with the other cake round. Repeat with additional cake rounds and whipped topping.

Place filled cakes on wire rack over waxed paper. Make ganache by placing chocolate chips and butter into a large bowl. In a medium saucepan over medium high heat, stir together cream and corn syrup. Heat until mixture just begins to simmer. Pour hot cream over chocolate chips and butter. Let sit for about one minute, until chocolate begins to melt. Stir mixture until chocolate is completely incorporated and mixture is smooth and glossy. Spoon ganache over filled cakes, allowing ganache to drizzle over the sides of the cakes. Refrigerate finished cakes until serving.

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Marilyn on 2.6.2012

Oh my these look SO good!

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historylady on 6.2.2010

These look lucious…will have to make them for the youth group girls next time they come over!

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eparsons on 6.2.2010

OMG!!! I HAVE to make these!! my mouth is watering…it’s 1 am…i better wait to start these at a reasonable time…lol!

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supermom on 6.1.2010

Ding Dongs are my favorite indulgence. I can’t wait to try these!! I will definitely be back to let you know how they are. They sound fantastic!!!!

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jmanley20 on 6.1.2010

what if you wanted to leave the corn syrup out.. would that be ok?

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Amanda on 5.14.2012

Loved!

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Mary McMillan on 3.10.2011

A nice resemblence of Ding Dongs. We feel that they’re better after kept in the frig for a couple of days. They’re very messy to make and take a long time, but my daughter really thinks it’s worth it. We chose not to cut out the pieces in rounds, but just did rectangles instead.

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