I tried the copycat recipe for frosting mix, which was simple and required just five ingredients whizzed in a food processor. Then I tried making the Tunnel of Fudge—and gosh darn if the cake ...

my mom used to make the Pillsbury Tunnel of Fudge Cake, and the tunnel came from a frosting mix. That frosting mix is no longer available, and Pillsbury’s revised recipe isn’t very fudgy.

Read all the stories from Slate’s 25 Most Important American Recipes of the Past 100 Years. The chocolate “lava cake” is firmly entrenched in the culinary pantheon—it’s the kind of ...

For the cake: 1 3/4 cups margarine or butter, softened 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar 6 eggs 2 cups powdered sugar 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups chopped walnuts 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa For ...

The Pillsbury dry frosting mix originally used in this Bake-Off winner ... treated with alkali to neutralize cocoa's natural acidity. To prepare cake: Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position ...

The original recipe called for a box of frosting mix, which was phased out ... You will intersect the tunnel of fudge and keep the cake in the oven too long. The cake is done when it pulls away ...

Helfrich, creator of Tunnel of Fudge Cake, died Tuesday at age 98 ... ingredient in the relatively easy-to-make cake - a frosting mix named Double-Dutch Fudge Buttercream. Home bakers complained ...

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Makes 16 servings. Note: Nuts are essential for success of recipe. Since cake has soft tunnel of fudge, ordinary doneness test cannot be used. Accurate oven temperature and baking time are critical.

The frosting mix in the Tunnel of Fudge seemed to perform some alchemical process to create the cake’s gooey center. And so when, at some point in the following decades, Pillsbury discontinued ...