If you're looking for an easy chocolate chip cake recipe, don't miss this one. Find out how to make this delicious cake with just 6 items!
My neighbor Sarah makes this amazingly yummy cake that would be perfect as a special Valentine's Day Treat (it's sooooo good!)  It was actually one of my very first recipe posts (way back in 2009!).
This recipe is a chocolate lover's dream.  I'm planning to make it this year for Valentine's Day at our house – let us know if you plan to make one too. It's so decadent but very practical to make. You can customize it a bit to add in extra flavors if you would like as well.
This recipe is delicious and SO easy to whip up!
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cake Recipe
Equipment
- Bundt Pan
Ingredients
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cake Ingredients
- 18.5 oz Devil's Food Cake Mix
- 5.9 oz Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix
- 4 Large Eggs
- 1 Cup Oil
- 1 Cup Sour Cream
- 1/2 Cup Warm Water
- 2 Cups Chocolate Chips
Frosting Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp Butter
- 2 oz Unsweetened Chocolate
- 2 Cups Powered Sugar
- 3 - 4 Tbsp Water
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Grease bundt pan
- Beat first six ingredients together for three minutes
- Add in chocolate chips and beat for 1 more minute
- Pour in bundt pan and bake for 50 - 55 minutes
Frosting
- Melt butter and chocolate together
- Add in sugar, vanillla, and water and mix
- If needed, add a bit more water to thin the frosting
- If there are any lumps in the frosting, whisk to remove
- Drizzle the frosting over the cake. Enjoy!
I was always told that you couldn't put chips into a cake mix like this – that it would just end up sinking right to the bottom of the pan. So, can you put chocolate chips in cake mix? You sure can – and it turns out absolutely delicious! If you wanted to mix it up a bit you could even use a peanut butter or butterscotch chip – although then it wouldn't be a chocolate cake any longer 🙂
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At the store and I don’t see a 5.9oz instant pudding in anything. Is that a typo? Help!
Hmm Johanna, they should have them? They’re the larger pudding boxes like this one – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000R96E54/?tag=pppinsta-20
Laurie could you use a 13×9?
Laurie must you use a Bundt pan. Had it ever been tried with say a 13 x 9?
Hi Jill! I think you could, but you may just need to adjust the baking time a bit. Hope that helps!
Do you add more chips after you frost the cake?
That’s totally up to you – these are just a fun way to decorate it further but you don’t need to!
I make this same yummy chocolate cake, but also make it using white cake mix, vanilla pudding and white chocolate chips. Then use white choc chips in frosting. Follow directions as stated with those substitutions. Delicious for the vanilla lovers.
Yum – that sounds amazing, Brenda! 🙂
Would this be good with a box of yellow cake mix?
I really think you’d need chocolate for this one Vicki – hope that helps!
Yellow cakes works well too.
My mom would flour the chocolate chips to help them not sink. I go one step further and keep chocolate chips in the refrigerator until I’m ready to use them. Love this cake! White chocolate chip cake version is great also. Change cake mix to white cake mix, use vanilla pudding and white chocolate chips!
I love those tips Angela -thank you so much for sharing! I’ll try that with the chocolate chips in the future!
Dumb question how to you guys grease the pan to ensure cake comes out. Do you spray Pam and then flour?
I sprayed and it was fine but the cake tested done with toothpick and when I flipped it was runny in middle. Thst surely is not normal?
Oh no Julie – it definitely shouldn’t have been runny in the middle (I wonder if it needed to bake a little longer?) I hate that that happened!
Hi Julie! I just usually spray really well with Pam and have no problems at all. Hope that helps!
Can this be made ahead? Does it need to be refrigerated?
Thank you!
It can definitely made ahead a day or two, and could probably be refrigerated to stay fresh longer (just wrap really tightly to keep it from drying out!) Hope that helps – you will love this one Katie!
Hi Laurie
This recipe looks great and I have tried to print it using print friendly at the bottom of it but it is not working for me. Every time I have tried to print something off your sight with this, a pop up add comes up and prints on top of it. I can not get it to print without the pop up add ruining it. Help!
Ughhhh! (You know I’m the worst at techy things!) I just tried in google chrome and internet explorer and it worked fine for me in both. Maybe try one more time (I didn’t try it in Firefox…) I hate stuff like that!
Here’s one more thought – I did see a pop up but I was able to click “x” on it and it went away? Look in the top right corner for that….
Ok thanks Laurie 🙂
You know, the other option is to copy and paste it into a word document and then just print it that way? Just a thought…
Sheila, do u have a smartphone? If yes, u should b able to screenshot the recipe after u find the print button. Hope this helps.
You can turn this into a Mocha Chocolate Chip Cake quite easily by substituting coffee for that warm water!
Yummmmmm – great idea Julie! The last time I tried to make anything “mocha” was when we were in our very first tiny apartment – I thought that a cup of coffee meant a cup of coffee granules ….. our apartment smelled like coffee for days! 🙂 I may try it with real coffee though, that sounds fabulous.