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Easy Chocolate Cake Recipe

I'm not above using a cake mix to come out with a foolproof cake. This one is super delicious!

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Cooling time 20 minutes

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 pkg plain devil's food cake mix
  • 1 pkg chocolate instant pudding mix
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 large eggs I used medium because I only ever buy medium
  • 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Frosting

  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 1/2 tbsp butter
  • 1/6 cup whole milk
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

For the cake:

  1. Preheat your oven to the magic setting - 350 degrees. Grease a bundt pan (isn't grease kind of a yucky word?)

    Dump all ingredients except for the chocolate chips in a bowl and mix with an electric mixer for 1 minute. Scrape the sides down (if you want; shockingly, I never want to and so I generally don't) and mix on medium for 2-3 minutes until it's all combined and smooth.

    Toss the chocolate chips in and turn the beaters back on until they're all nice and combined.

    Pour the batter into the bundt pan and smooth the batter down with a spatula. Put the pan in the oven for 60 minutes or until it's pulling away from the edges and a toothpick comes out clean.

    Let cool for 20 minutes, invert on a rack and cool completely.

For the frosting:

  1. Mix first three ingredients in a saucepan and cook over medium-high. Let come to a boil, stirring, and let it boil 1 minute.

    Remove from heat and stir in chocolate chips and stir until very smooth.

    Pour immediately over cooled cake and let drizzle down the sides (I was too slow getting mine on and by the time I got back to the other side of the cake, it had hardened up a bit and looked kind of lumpy on that one side of the cake. I tried to remelt it with a blowdryer but it didn't work. You're all laughing now, aren't you? Stop that!)

    Eat and think of that time that you could zip your pants. Shrug and decide it was worth it.