This Simple Chocolate Cake from a box mix is the secret to the most moist chocolate cake at home! Made with simple ingredients like, sour cream, extra eggs and instant pudding it absolutely will become the best chocolate cake from a box you’ve ever had… possibly the best cake you’ve ever had!
Learn how to doctor up a chocolate cake mix by reading further! I’ll show you all of the tips and step-by-step photos to teach you how to bake this doctored chocolate cake mix recipe!
Easy Chocolate Box Cake Recipe
This easy chocolate cake is made for anyone from a beginning baker up to an absolute expert! Which is why it has become so popular on Pinterest and Instagram, just like our Peanut Butter Monster Cookies.
Why We Love This Recipe!
I love that this moist chocolate cake recipe starts off with a Devil Food’s or Fudge cake mix! When life is busy and you want a special dessert but aren’t a cake baker, this recipe is for you! We love that it’s doctored up with some chocolate pudding and sour cream to give it an amazing texture and taste.
Cake mixes already include the flour, some sugar, salt and leavening agents like baking soda and/or baking powder. By using a cake mix for your dry ingredients, just eliminate the steps of measuring out all those ingredients. Total time saver!
ESSENTIAL Tip for Using Cake Mix From a Box
Years ago cake mixes filled a 9×13″ pan, but they no longer do that because they’ve lowered the ounces of the mix (and increased the price logically🤑). To remedy the situation, I now own this smaller, 7×11″ pan and I use it ALL THE TIME!
Like in my caramel brownies (our family’s #1 dessert!)
Ingredients For a Doctored Cake Mix
For the Cake
- Cake Mix: A 15.25 oz. Duncan Hines devil’s food cake mix seems to work best. You can use any mix you’d like though. The base that provides flour, sugar, cocoa powder, leavening, and stabilizers. It gives structure and the initial chocolate flavor.
- Jello Instant Chocolate Pudding: Use the 3.4 ounce size. Adds extra cocoa