Chocolate Chip Cake

Easy Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cake is a combination of creamy pudding and a moist, fluffy cake topped with chocolate chips. It’s a delectable dessert recipe that adds the flavor of chocolate with a cooked crunch of brown sugar.

Chocolate Cake With Pudding Mix And Chocolate Chips

 

Adding pudding to a cake mix always adds a sweet flavor to the cake and helps keep it moist.

And you know, I am all about easy recipes, and this is a prime example of a simple, no-fuss recipe.

It feeds a lot of people and, if you have company coming over and need to make something, this is perfect.

My grandmother made a ton of cakes. Baking was her thing. She never made this cake, but I think she would have really liked it.

She was famous for her pies, at least in my mind, but she could whip up the perfect cake in no time.

This recipe only has six simple ingredients, so it’s inexpensive, too.

What Ingredients Do I Need For This Chocolate Chip Cake Recipe?

• White cake mix
• Instant vanilla pudding
• Eggs
• Milk
• Brown sugar
• Semi-sweet chocolate chips

Full printable recipe with measurements and instructions listed at the bottom of the post in the recipe card.

White cake mix – Boxed cake mixes are not always the best cakes, but adding ingredients will help make them moister and more delicious.

Instant vanilla pudding – Pudding is one of those ingredients that always enhances the flavor of the cake. It’s also great in cookies, as well.

Brown sugar – Most recipes call for brown sugar in the cake, but in this recipe, we put it on the top of the cake, so when it bakes it’s sweet and crunchy on top.

Chocolate chips – We also add the chocolate chips to the top of the cake so they will bake right into the brown sugar. The combination of brown sugar and chocolate chips can’t be beaten.

How To Make Chocolate Chip Cake

Add the cake mix and the instant pudding mix to a medium-sized bowl.

Add the milk and the eggs…

I love that one little droplet of milk starts to turn the vanilla pudding yellow. 

Once you’ve given everything a stir and it looks smooth, pour it into the greased cake pan. I used a 13″ x 9″ pan, and you will need one that big. 

Next, sprinkle the brown sugar on the top. Spread it out as evenly as possible. It doesn’t have to be perfect. 

Finally, sprinkle the semi-sweet chocolate chips all over the top. They will rest nicely in the brown sugar lumps. 

Bake it for about 30 minutes. You can test it with a knife or cake tester in the center. If it comes out clean it’s done. If not, stick it back in for just a few more minutes. 

By this time, your house is going to smell amazing. It’s a wonderful, comforting smell. And look at those chocolate chips, all warm and gooey, just begging for you to eat them. 

Isn’t it gorgeous? I had to put up the photo of the entire cake because it was just so pretty.

The brown sugar melted into a crunchy sweet bite, with bits of melted chocolate. Yep, it’s delicious. 

Other cakes you will love:

• Praline Pecan Banana Cake is a very dense and delicious cake.
• Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Frosting is a wonderful homemade cake that is easy to make and always turns out tasty.