Johanna, our neighbor, brought a Hershey cake to our house at the time of the death of my Uncle Buddy, my mom’s brother, in the mid-’70s. She said the recipe came from Carol, who lived in Hawaii.

My only connection to Hershey cake, other than eating more than my share over the years, is that I printed the recipe about 30 years ago.

Topping the list of chocolate dessert favorites of Chip, 14; Geoffrey, 11 and Matthew, 6, is their mother's Hershey Cake." The original recipe calls for six Hershey Bars.

This is Hershey's signature chocolate cake recipe, the one printed on the back of their cocoa powder container and beloved by home bakers for generations.

Hershey's claims this is a "Perfectly Chocolate" chocolate cake. We put it to the RecipeFact TruthSayer test in this week's No Budget Cooking Series.