Milky Way Cake

Last week I attempted to make this cake. It didn't work out so well, but I DID manage to salvage it (I wasn't going to let 8 Milky Way's go to waste after all!). I have since determined that what I did wrong was to make dinner. I put the cake in too close to dinner time & then when I thought the cake was done I put dinner in the oven, determined the cake was not done, after all, but then had to wait 20 minutes before I could put it back in the oven to finish baking it. Oh, I also used the wrong kind of pan b/c I was trying to be a maverick or something. May you have better luck than I did!

By popular demand, here it is:

Milky Way Cake

8 Milky Way bars (or Mars Bars if you're in Canada)

3 sticks of butter

2 c. sugar

4 eggs

2 1/2 c. flour

1/4 t. baking soda

1 1/4 c. buttermilk

1 t. vanilla

1 c. chopped pecans (I always say nuts are purely optional & I choose not to include them... do as you will)

Melt bars with 1 stick of butter. Let cool.

Cream the other 2 sticks of butter with the sugar & eggs. Add the rest of the ingredients & add the chocolate goo. Beat well.

Pour into greased & floured tube pan.

Bake at 325 for 1 hour - 1hr 35 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean

Frosting

2 1/2 c. sugar

1 c. evaporated milk

1 stick butter

1 c. marshmallow cream

6 oz. pkg. chocolate chips

1 c. pecans (again, why ruin something good by adding nuts?)

Cook the sugar & evaporated milk on the stove until it thickens a bit.

Then remove from the heat and add the other stuff until it is frosting.

The frosting part for me was a bit runny, so I just poured it on & figured it still tastes the same whether it's runny or not. It worked well on the cake to keep everything moist.