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Enjoy the best cake you’ve ever had when you make this Better Than Anything Cake made with simple ingredients and the best flavor combinations.

With this easy dessert recipe, you will get a decadent chocolate cake without all the extra steps. This chocolate cake recipe is a crowd favorite recipe that you can make for special occasions. 

 Between the rich chocolate cake base, the delicious cream cheese whipped topping, and tasty heath bars chopped into bits and sprinkled on top of the cake, this is the best chocolate cake when you need an easy cake recipe. 

Ingredients for Better Than Anything Cake:

• Cake mix: use your favorite box of chocolate cake mix
• Pudding: get a box of instant chocolate pudding mix packet
• Milk: use whatever milk you have on hand and a can of sweetened condensed milk
• Oil: use either vegetable oil or canola oil in this chocolate poke cake
• Eggs: use large eggs that are at room temperature 
• Sauce: you will need to get a bottle of your caramel sauce or make homemade caramel sauce
• Cream: use whipped topping like a container of Cool Whip from the grocery store
• Cheese: be sure to have softened cream cheese on hand
• Sugar: to get the best results you will need to use powdered sugar in the whipped cream mixture
• Topping: use toffee bits from heath candy bars to finish this delicious dessert

How to make Better Than Anything Cake:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Spray a 9×13 baking dish with nonstick spray.

To a large bowl add the cake mix, a box of pudding mix, milk, oil, and eggs. Mix well and pour the cake batter into the baking dish. Bake cake for 30 minutes or until the center has set.

Once out of the oven using a wooden skewer or a chopstick poke holes all over the entire cake.

Let the cake cool completely.

Pour the sweetened condensed milk all over the top of the cake.

Pour 1/4 cup of the caramel sauce over the cake.

To a medium sized bowl add in the cream cheese and powdered sugar beat well. Stir in the whipping cream.

Spread over the top of the cake.

Sprinkle the toffee bits and drizzle the caramel sauce over the top.

How to store the leftovers of this simple chocolate cake:

Fridge: Place the lid on your airtight container and store it in the fridge for up to 5 days for the best results. 

Tips and tricks for making this decadent dessert: 

Toppings to use:

If you don’t love heath toffee bits you can always use different toppings:

1. Chocolate chips
2. Chocolate chunks
3. Sprinkles
4. Caramel chips
5. White chocolate chips

Cake mix to use:

Generally, I like to use either the German chocolate cake mix or the Devil’s Food cake mix, but if you don’t enjoy chocolate cake, you can always switch to white cake mix or yellow cake mix. 

If you choose to use white cake mix, be sure to use vanilla pudding mix in place of the chocolate pudding.

More dessert recipes:

• Apple Cranberry Christmas Dump cake
• Oreo Dump Cake
• Black Forest Dump Cake
• Honey Bun Cake

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