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The Ultimate CHOCOLATE DUMP CAKE Perfect For My Birthday Cake
Aug 25, 2025
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Welcome back everyone to Katherine's
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Plates. I'm Katherine and it is my
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birthday week. My birthday is August
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30th, which is Saturday, and I want to
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show y'all some recipes that I would
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love to have on my birthday. We're going
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to start with this one here. It's a
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dessert. It's decadent. It sounds really
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delicious. I've never made this one
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before. It is a chocolate dump cake.
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These are the ingredients right here.
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And of course, it's always got to start
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with a box cake mix, right? All right,
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you guys. Y'all come on down. Let's put
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this one together cuz it sounds amazing.
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All right, I've got my oven preheated at
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350°.
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And it also says to butter your baking
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dish. And we're going to be using a 9
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by13.
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Now, I've already taken a stick of
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butter out of the little package here,
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melted it for the recipe, and I'm going
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to use whatever's left on here to grease
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our baking dish.
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All right, just go up the sides in the
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corners.
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Get the butter off of the wrapper here.
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Now, when you have these, you can put
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these in the freezer and use it for this
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purpose here.
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The next step is we're going to take our
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cake mix. I'm using the Devil's Food
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cake mix. It's got a really good
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chocolate flavor to it. This is a 15.25
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ounce size.
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It's a dump cake, so everything is going
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to get dumped in there.
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And we're going to start with the bottom
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layer here.
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So, we're going to pour the cake mix
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dry into the bottom of our prepared
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baking dish. Nice and even.
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Oh, it smells good coming out of the
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package.
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I know y'all are here for the chocolate.
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I'm going to get a spatula.
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Doesn't that say happy birthday?
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I'm going to smooth it out nice and even
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because we're not going to mix anything
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after this point. Just don't pack it
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down.
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All right, there we go.
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The next step is we're going to add our
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chocolate chips. Now, this is where you
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can change up the flavor of your cake.
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You can do peanut butter chips, you can
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do white chocolate chips, or you could
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do the dark chocolate chips, semieet
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chocolate chips, whatever you like. All
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right. Now, I'm using the dark chocolate
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chips. We got one cup. And I'm going to
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sprinkle them across the top of our cake
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mix.
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Just nice and even across the top. This
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will melt into the cake mix.
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Make it ooey gooey.
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There we go.
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This is the one I'm using right here,
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the Ghirardelli.
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I love that it's my birthday week
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because I'm going to make everything I
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love or that I would love to make for my
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birthday. But since my birthday's on
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Saturday, we're all going to gather
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together at a restaurant and celebrate
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my birthday with my brother Donald, his
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wife Donna, of course, my husband
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Thomas, Joseph and his fiance Megan. I
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know that's just such a cool word. I
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love that fiance word for him. and then
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Rihanna and her boyfriend Chris. So, you
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know, we're gonna have a great time. All
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right, the next thing we're gonna do is
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drizzle some caramel over the top of
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that. About one cup. I get this one
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right here. It's easy to pour. It's got
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a nice little spout right there. And you
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can just squeeze it on.
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I'm going to be estimating this cup.
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I'm going to get down the sides.
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It's going to have some caramel in it.
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Love it.
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All right, that's what I'm using right
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here.
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Now, I know I've been doing some low
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carb recipes and we've been going at it
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nice and strong with it. This is not
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considered like a low carb dessert, but
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if you eat a bite of it, it is. It's
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probably about 10 carbs. It's a smaller
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bite than a regular
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low carb desserts, but that's okay. It's
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a birthday week and we can do it. All
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right. Now, what we're going to do, cuz
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we've got to give it some more moisture,
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we're going to add in one stick of
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melted butter. This is unsalted because
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there's enough stuff in here with salt
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on it. So, this is half a cup. And we're
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going to pour that on top like we did
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everything else.
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Nice and even.
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Well, you know, since it's your
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birthday, there are no carbs.
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Y'all agree with that?
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No carbs on the birthday. Sorry.
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I agree with that.
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Everything you eat is carbless.
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Don't worry, we got a lot of people
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ready to eat this cake.
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We've got Rihanna and her boyfriend
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Chris coming over later today. They're
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going to be diving into this. And then
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we Joseph and Megan are coming over in a
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couple of days, two days. And they'll
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probably eat the rest if there's any
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left.
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All right. We're looking for some more
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moisture to get into that cake on the
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bottom.
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Yeah. I've got one can of evaporated
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milk, 12 oz.
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Good thing I read that. The top of the
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can, it says shake. Well,
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I'm always faster than I need to be on
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things sometimes.
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Y'all like that, too?
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All right, we'll get my husband over
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here. He's better at it. All right,
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we're going to pour that all on top.
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It's like the magic cake.
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Oh, that smells good.
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All right,
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that's what I was using right here. Now,
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I've got half a cup of some walnuts. Or
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you can use pecans, or you don't even
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have to have any in there at all. I love
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the walnuts, so they're going in. These
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are unsalted.
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Right on top.
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I love walnuts, too.
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Now, I've got my oven preheated at 350°.
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We're going to bake this for about 30 to
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35 minutes. You want the top to be set
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and then you want the edges to be kind
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of bubbly. You can take a toothpick and
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go into the cake part of it and then
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come out with that and see if it's done.
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All right. Now, if you want a more ooey
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gooey cake, you can leave it in at the
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30 minutes. If you want it a little more
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drier, then you can put it in at the 35
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minutes. I'm going to be back cuz I am
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ready to try my birthday cake. All
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right.
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Now, I did cook this for 40 minutes. It
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was an additional five minutes on that
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just to get it nice and solid on the
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top. We let it rest and cool down
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completely. We had lunch to do that.
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Let's go in.
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It smells delicious, you guys. All
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right, let me grab a fork.
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There's my bite.
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That's good. I love the walnuts in
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there. This is so scrumptious.
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Those flavors. It's rich. It's decadent.
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I love that. All right.
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What do y'all think of my ultimate
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chocolate dump cake? It's a birthday
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cake for me. That's the way to start
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your birthday week with.
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All right, you guys.
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