'Nothing Bundt Cake'

This is the homemade version of a Nothing Bundt Cake. It's a great bakery that specializes in, um....bundt cakes :). Check out the link and see their website, they have some yummy sounding cakes and serve them very cute. Now I want to copy all the flavors! Anyway, we love them so much we make my mom lug one on the plane as her carry on when she comes to visit. I looked around online last night and found this version and it's extremely close to the real thing. If you love chocolate, this cake is for you!

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Nothing Bundt Cake

1 pkg. devils food cake, German chocolate cake, or chocolate cake mix
1 pkg. instant chocolate pudding
1 c. sour cream
4 large eggs
1/2 c. water
1/2 c. oil
1 1/2 c. mini chocolate chips
2 (8 ounce) pkgs. cream cheese, softened
1/2 c. butter, softened
3-4 c. powdered sugar (or more)
2 tsp. vanilla extract

Mix first six ingredients together with a beater. Add chocolate chips. Pour into a greased bunt cake pan (cooking spray works best, my cake just fell out of the pan). Cook in oven at 350 degrees for 45-50 mins. Remove from oven. Let cool for 20 mins. Remove from pan. (you can wrap it well in Saran Wrap and let it sit overnight in the fridge before frosting and serving, this is the kind of cake that tastes better the next day) In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter until creamy. Mix in the vanilla, then gradually stir in the powdered sugar. I added the full 4 cups because to frost it like they do, you want the frosting pretty thick. It made a ton though, enough to cover 2 cakes so it next time I would cut the frosting recipe in half. I also used a gallon ziploc bag with a corner cut off to pipe it on and that added more frosting that necessary. After we were finished we all felt like death by bundt cake. But it was death by cake in a good way!

(Thanks for the photos Marion!)