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If you didn't indulge enough over the holidays, you might want to plan a dinner at a local Claim Jumper restaurant. The Southern California-based chain offers a dessert that will stop chocolate-lovers and cardiologists in their tacks: the Chocolate Motherlode Cake. Standing nearly 12-inchs high, the dessert is six layers of dense, rich chocolate cake slathered in thick, fudgy frosting studded with a generous number of walnuts. One slice of the cake, which is cut into 10 servings, weighs 3 pounds. Each year the company sells more than a quarter of a million slices of cake in its restaurants, while whole cakes are purchased for everything from office parties to weddings.

For anyone who is watching their calories in the new year, you may want to pass on this dessert. Claim Jumper doesn't offer the nutritional information for most of their foods, but they sell a 5-ounce version of their chocolate motherlode cake. Since the real thing is almost 10 times the size of the frozen one, assuming that they have the same or a similar recipe, a restaurant-sized slice of this dessert will have well over 4000 calories.