Rich, fudgy and dense, this Chocolate Pudding Cake recipe is a huge hit at family parties! Nobody needs to know it starts with a cake mix!
If you have a pantry full of cake mixes, bake up a batch of easy Cake Mix cookies. Add holiday or colorful sprinkles to give them so fun and festive flair. Or give our delicious Chocolate pudding cupcakes a try next!
Easy chocolate pudding cake recipe
Sometimes when you’re craving a chocolate cake, you just want to whip up something easy.
My grandma always made us this banana pudding recipe or her jello cakes, so I thought why not take a similar approach with todays pudding cake recipe!
- Starts with a cake mix!
- Rich and fudgy, this dense chcoolate cake is so moist!
- Topped with cool whip or homemade whipped cream.
Sometimes you just need an easy treat. Holidays are great for making carrot cake or bread pudding, but Tuesdays are for chocolate pudding cake!
Ingredient Notes
Making a pudding cake is so easy. I’m often asked about the texture, and it’s similar to brownies. Rich and fudgy, and quite dense!
You only need a handful of ingredients to make today’s recipe:
- Chocolate Cake Mix
- Chocolate Pudding Mix
- Milk
- Cool Whip
- Chocolate Chips and Sprinkles are optional
How to make Chocolate Pudding Cake
- First, in a large mixing bowl, combine chocolate pudding mix with milk. Whisk until smooth.
- Add in chocolate cake mix and beat until well blended. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Pour cake batter into a greased 13×9 baking dish, and bake according to cake mix package directions.
- Remove from oven and cool completely.
- Top with Cool Whip (or homemade whipped cream) and sprinkles, refrigerate 4 hours or overnight. Cake will be moist and dense…perfect!!
More Pudding Recipes
If you love today’s chocolate version, then you’ve got to try this Lemon Pudding Cake recipe. Virtually the same, with a few swaps in ingredients!
One of the easiest cakes to make! The pudding added to the top of the warm cake makes this so moist and delicious. Add some Cool Whip and toasted coconut and this Coconut Pudding Cake will be gone in no time!
Chewy, moist, and packed with flavor. Thanks to the secret ingredient, these Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies are always a hit!
More Cake Recipes
- Eclair Cake
- Banana Cake Recipe
- Cream Puff Cake
- White Cake with Cranberry Filling
- Coconut Cake
- Coca Cola Cake
- Yellow Cake
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Chocolate Pudding Cake
Ingredients
- 1 box box chocolate cake mix
- 1 bag semi-sweet chocolate chips 12 ounce
- 1 box instant chocolate pudding mix 3.4 ounce
- 2 cups whole milk
- 16 ounce Cool Whip thawed
- sprinkles optional
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine chocolate pudding mix with milk. Whisk until smooth. Add in chocolate cake mix and beat until well blended. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Pour cake batter into a greased 13×9 baking dish, and bake according to cake mix package directions.
- Remove from oven and cool completely. Top with Cool Whip and sprinkles, refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
Notes
- Use homemade whipped cream instead of Cool Whip, if desired.
- Store leftover cake in refrigerator for up to 5 days.
this recipe so yammy!!!!!!!! it’s too bad the name of the site spelled wrong -_-
The name of the site is spelled that way. To catch your eye
I thought JUST 4 ingredients. That’s my kind of cake! I didn’t have exactly the same ingredients the recipe called for. It still turned out pretty tasty. I would like to know what size cake mix to use. I used the 15.25 oz devils food cake. I also had an 18 oz mix. I did make this recipe as it is written. Went against all my cooking instincts to use a dry cake mix without making a batter first. I didn’t think for a minute this would work. I had to use a chocolate mousse mix I had in my cupboard and bittersweet chocolate chips to substitute what the recipe asked for. After mixing everything together (I didn’t even have to dirty my mixer, mixed it by hand) the batter seemed too dry so I acknowledged my cooking instincts and through in an egg for good measure and little more cream. Folded in the chips and about 35 min later pulled a really beautiful cake from my oven. Tastes wonderful. Thanks for the recipe!
I’m afraid I’ve over cooked it because it was so jiggly I kept putting in longer and longer crossing my fingers I didn’t blow it. Smells delicious
I was looking for a recipe to make a cake like the pudding cake sold at my local kroger. But this ain’t it. Theirs is like actual cake but still dense and moist, while this is like gooey, almost-raw cake batter that is sort of pudding-y. Maybe I should cook it longer? But I already had to cook it 10 min. longer than it said because the top was still liquid. I used Betty Crocker dark chocolate cake mix, does it make a difference? The recipe didn’t say any certain one. I guess I’ll have to keep searching.
Could you also top it with cherry pie filling
Was excited when I found this recipe. My 6-year old grandson asked for a very chocolaty BD cake. Now that I am ready to prepare, I’m concerned about “dense”. No milk and eggs… Wondering if this would be too much density and chocolate for 6-year olds.
Is toothpick inserted in middle when done supposed to come out clean?
No because it’s a dense pudding cake it won’t come out clean.
I can never eat just one piece of this! So good!
I just made it and it was perfect! So easy too!!