My recommendations for enjoying this cake: send the recipe to someone else to make for you. You do not want to even see what goes in this one! Oh, and you better have a big enough group to enjoy it, or else you're in TROUBLE.

Ingredients

Cake base mixture

8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, melted

1 (18.25-ounce) package chocolate cake mix

1 egg

Cake filling

1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened

2 eggs

3 to 4 tablespoons cocoa powder

1 (16-ounce) box powdered sugar

8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, melted

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Lightly grease a 13 by 9-inch baking pan.

In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, 1 egg, and 1 stick melted butter, and stir until well blended. Pat mixture into prepared pan and set aside.

In a stand mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add 2 eggs, and the cocoa powder. Lower the speed of the mixer, and add the powdered sugar. Continue beating until ingredients are well mixed. Slowly add the 1 stick of melted butter, and the vanilla, continuing to beat the mixture until smooth. Stir in pecans with a rubber spatula. Spread filling over cake mixture in pan. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Be careful not to overcook the cake; the center should still be a little gooey when finished baking. Let cake partially cool on a wire rack before cutting into pieces.