Classic Hershey Bar Cake Recipe

Classic Hershey Bar Cake Ingredients

1 cup Butter or margarine – softened 1 1/4 cups Granulated sugar
4 Eggs
6 Hershey’s Milk Chocolate -Bars (1.55 oz. each) – melted
2 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoons Baking soda
1 ds Salt
1 cup Buttermilk or sour milk*
1/2 cups Hershey’s Syrup
2 teaspoons Vanilla extract
1 cup Chopped pecans
Powdered sugar (optional)

Classic Hershey Bar Cake Directions

Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Grease and flour 10-inch tube pan or 12-cup fluted tube pan.
In large mixer bowl, beat butter until creamy; gradually add granulated sugar, beating on medium speed of electric mixer until well blended.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Add chocolate; beat until blended.
Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; add to chocolate mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating until blended.
Add syrup and vanilla; beat until blended.
Stir in pecans.
Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack.
Cool completely.
Sift powdered sugar over top, if desired.
12 to 16 servings.
* To sour milk: Use 1 tablespoon white vinegar plus milk to equal 1 cup.