Magical Chocolate Flan Cake

This is not a healthy recipe. In fact, as part of the deal in making the cake for this particular office birthday, it couldn't be "any of that diet food" I eat. So I turned to a favorite recipe that was given to me by a coworker a few years ago (thanks Cynthia!).

With 8 whole eggs, 3 types of milk, cream cheese, chocolate cake, and caramel, this is definitely not diet food.

Ingredients:

* Box of Devil's Food chocolate cake mix and required ingredients
* 5 whole eggs
* 8 oz package of cream cheese, room temperature
* 1 tsp vanilla
* 12 oz can of evaporated milk
* can of sweetened condensed milk
* 1/2 cup fresh milk
* Jar of caramel

Directions: 

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Spray bundt pan with cooking spray. Cover bottom of pan with caramel.

 2. Mix chocolate cake according to instructions. Pour into cake pan over caramel.

3. In a blender, mix 5 eggs, cream cheese, vanilla, evaporated milk, condensed milk, and fresh milk.

4. Pour egg mixture over chocolate cake.

5. Place cake pan into large roasting/lasagna pan (at least 2" deep). You will need to cover the top of the cake with aluminum foil (spray the cake side with cooking spray so it doesn't stick). Tightly fold down the foil so your cake won't runneth over.

6. Place the roasting pan into the oven. Fill the roasting pan with hot water until the cake pan is sitting about 2" deep. This water bath will help heat the flan part of the cake evenly without burning.

7. Bake for 2 hours.

8. Remove from oven and let cool for 15-20 minutes.

9. Check that out!!! The chocolate is on top (or bottom) now!  Magic!  Place a platter on top of the bundt cake pan and carefully flip and remove the bundt cake shape. (Don't wait too long; I made the mistake once of leaving it in the pan in the fridge, thinking it would make it easier to transport, but instead the flan got stuck, ruining the presentation).

Voila! Your chocolate flan cake is done!  The cool thing is the flan, which was the last thing you poured into the pan, sinks through the chocolate cake mixture and ends up at the bottom (or top, once you flip it). All of that flan-ney goodness leaves you with really moist chocolate cake. And since it is SOOOO rich, it will feed a lot of people.