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Chocolate Bundt Cake Recipe With Cake Mix And Pudding

Grab your Bundt pan and your electric mixer because weโ€™re about to whip up the most decadent cake recipe of all! This chocolate Bundt cake is one of the easiest Bundt cake recipes around, thanks to the help of boxed cake mix and pudding.

The Best Chocolate Cake

Chocolate cake with frosting on a white cake stand. There's a red kitchen towel below the stand.


 

A tender crumb and outrageous chocolate flavors await.

If you need a cake for a party or gathering, or just because youโ€™re like me and need chocolate NOW, then trot out that Bundt cake pan, and letโ€™s get baking!

Get the recipe for the chocolate icing with buttermilk pictured above.

A piece of chocolate cake with plenty of chocolate flavor on a beige plate. The cake has chocolate frosting on top.

The Delicious Cake Recipe Youโ€™ve Got to Make

Sometimes, even the best bakers need an ace in the hole. Boxed cake mix and instant chocolate pudding are your saving grace when friends and family drop by.

With little time to spare, you can whip up some love, southern style. 

Come to think of it, maybe thatโ€™s why everyone is always dropping by. I canโ€™t help but go back to my Southern roots and serve up something.

This super moist cake is a true crowd-pleaser. Iโ€™ve had yet to find anyone that doesnโ€™t full-on swoon with every bite. 

A slice of chocolate bundt cake on a white plate. There is a fork next to the slice.

You can use one regular-sized Bundt cake pan or use mini ones for mini Bundt cakes, which are a super-cute idea for a baby shower or bridal shower, or to give as yummy little treats to friends and family.

Step-By-Step Instructions

Chocolate cake mix in a clear glass mixing bowl.

Start by adding the Duncan Hines cake mix to the mixing bowl.

Chocolate cake mix and pudding mix in as large clear glass bowl.

Next, add the instant pudding mix to the bowl.

Pouring vegetable oil into a clear glass bowl with chocolate cake and chocolate instant pudding mix.

Pour the vegetable oil into the bowl.

Pouring milk into a clear glass bowl with cake mix.

Next, pour the milk into the bowl.

Sour cream in a clear glass bowl with cake mix and milk.

Add the sour cream to the bowl.

Sour cream is going to help make this a very moist cake.

Pouring vanilla extract into the cake mixing bowl.

Pour the vanilla extract into the bowl and mix until combined.

Four eggs in a mixing bowl with cake batter.

Add the eggs and mix until combined.

Cake batter with chocolate chips in a clear glass bowl.

Finally, add the chocolate chips to the batter and mix.

I had some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips on hand, so I used those. But you can use regular-sized chocolate chips if you’d like to.

Cake batter in a greased and floured metal Bundt pan.

Pour the cake batter into a greased and floured Bundt pan and bake for 50 to 55 minutes at 350 degrees.

I have been using the nonstick spray that sprays flour and nonstick spray, and it works wonderfully. The cake never sticks to the pan.

Baked chocolate Bundt cake on a white cake stand.

Allow the cake to cool in the pan for at least 30 minutes to one hour. Then flip the cake over gently onto a plate or cake stand.

Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting on top of a white cake stand.

Add some icing to the cooled cake and serve.

Once you see how easy this chocolate Bundt cake recipe is, youโ€™ll want to do it with all different types of cakes.

You can use a yellow cake mix, lemon cake mix with some added lemon zest and either a lemon glaze or cream cheese frosting, a white cake mix, spice cake, peanut butter, red velvet, pumpkin spice, or even make a sour cream Bundt cake.

With these cake mix recipes, itโ€™s easy to make a super moist cake that fits your personal preferences. Switch up the pudding, too, by using vanilla pudding mix or butterscotch pudding.

You really canโ€™t go wrong!

A slice of chocolate cake on a beige plate. The cake is on a cake stand next to the plate.

More Delicious Cakes

A slice of chocolate cake with chocolate frosting on a white plate.

Chocolate Bundt Cake Recipe With Cake Mix And Pudding

The next time you need a cake, make it this chocolate Bundt cake with pudding and cake mix. Itโ€™s so easy to make in a flash with just a few simple ingredients.

If you donโ€™t have time to bake a cake completely from scratch or are new to baking and feel a bit intimidated, start here. No one will ever believe your Bundt cake started life as a boxed mix!

A piece of chocolate cake with plenty of chocolate flavor on a beige plate. The cake has chocolate frosting on top.

Chocolate Bundt Cake Recipe With Cake Mix And Pudding

4.30 from 31 votes
Julie Pollitt
Chocolate Bundt cake recipe with cake mix and pudding is decadent and rich. The recipe is a chocolate-lovers dream.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Additional Time 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours 5 minutes
Course Cake
Cuisine American
Servings 16
Calories 289 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 15.25 ounce box Duncan Hines Devil’s Food Cake Mix
  • 3.9 ounce box of Instant Chocolate Pudding
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 4 eggs
  • 12 ounce bag semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan.
  • Add the cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, milk, and eggs to a large mixing bowl and mix well.
  • Next, add the chocolate chips and stir to combine.
  • Pour the cake batter into the Bundt pan and bake for 50-55 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
  • Allow the cake to cool for at least one hour before inverting it onto a cake stand or frosting.

Video

Notes

Check the cake for doneness in several places, as the pudding will come out a bit gooey. If the cake tester comes out cclean in several places, it is done. If not, cook in increments of five minutes until the cake is done.
I used Duncan Hines Devilโ€™s Food boxed cake mix, but if you canโ€™t find it, you can use Betty Crocker.ย 

Nutrition

Serving: 1Calories: 289kcalCarbohydrates: 18gProtein: 3gFat: 24gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 16gCholesterol: 56mgSodium: 66mgFiber: 1gSugar: 13g
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4 Comments

  1. Sonya Wilson says:

    Yes I have made it 3 times. So quick and easy. Thank you for sharing your recipe.

    1. Julie Pollitt says:

      Great to hear and you are welcome!

  2. CATHERINE says:

    2 stars
    great recipe… hope this is the one that I made

    1. Julie Pollitt says:

      Thank you, Catherine!