Harrigan's Black Magic Cake

Submitted to recipegoldmine.com by Stephanie Gustafson

This is a recipe that was in the September issue of Good Housekeeping, so I've not made it yet.

This recipe is from Harrigan's in Lubbock, Texas. This heavenly cake needs only powdered sugar on top.

Prep time: 25 minutes plus cooling. Cook time: about 1 1/2 hours.

Makes 20 servings.

1 cup butter or margarine, cut up
3/4 cup chocolate syrup
8 (2.05 ounce) chocolate-covered caramel-and-nougat
    bars (Milky Way), cut up
2 cups sugar
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Heat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease 12-cup Bundt pan.

In 4-quart microwave-safe bowl, combine butter, syrup, and nougat bars. Heat 5 to 5 1/2 minutes on medium (50% power), whisking once. Whisk until smooth. Whisk in sugar, then buttermilk, vanilla extract and eggs. Stir in the flour, cocoa, salt and baking soda.

Pour batter into pan. Bake 1 hour 30 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out almost clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Loosen cake from pan; invert onto rack to cool.

Each serving: 375 calories, 5g protein, 57g carbohydrates, 16g total fat (9g saturated), 2g fiber, 71mg cholesterol, and 295mg sodium