Let them eat cake

I can't believe I'm doing this.

The peer pressure is too much. I'm going to give you the cake recipe.

Without further delay, here is the recipe for the Cheesecake-Stuffed Dark Chocolate Cake.

Unsweetened cocoa
1 18.25 oz package devil's food cake mix
1 3.4 oz package chocolate instant pudding mix
3 large eggs
1.25 cups milk
1 cup canola oil
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1.5 tsp chocolate extract (optional)
1 tsp almond extract
3 1.55 oz Hershey's milk chocolate candy bars
3 16 oz cans homestyle cream cheese frosting
3 7.75 oz boxes frozen cheesecake bites, coarsely chopped (Sara Lee)
1 12 oz jar dulce de leche caramel sauce (Smuckers)
Double chocolate rolled wafer cookies (Pirouline)
Chocolate fudge rolled wafer cookies

1. Grease 2 9-inch round cake pans and dust with cocoa
2. Beat cake mix and next 7 ingredients at low speed with an electric mixer 1 minute; then beat at medium speed 2 minutes. Fold in chopped milk chocolate bars. Pour batter into prepared pans
3. Bake at 350 degrees for 32 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched. Cool cake in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks. Wrap and chill cake layers at least 1 hour or up to 24 hours.
4. Using a serrated knife, slice cake layers in half horizontally to make 4 layers. Place 1 layer, cut side up, on a cake plate. Spread with 1/2 cup cream cheese frosting; sprinkle with 1/4 of chopped cheesecake bites. Repeat procedure with remaining 3 layers, frosting and cheesecake bites, omitting cheesecake bites on top of last layer. Frost sides and top of cake with remaining frosting. Drizzle desired amount of caramel sauce over cake, letting it drip down sides. Chill until ready to serve. Decorate cake with rolled wafer cookies and remaining chopped cheesecake bites. Store in refrigerator.

So there you have it: a great cake recipe and my manly pride. Yours for the taking.

By the way, I knew this was my kind of recipe when I got toward the end of #4. Any recipe that tells me to "chill until ready to serve" is my kind of recipe.

And while we're on the subject of food, Wife made a pot roast last week that was so good I wanted to slap her mother. She's posted the recipe over at her place.