Special Chocolate Cake from a Box

This doctored up cake mix recipe is better than any from-scratch cake I've ever tried. You can use any flavor cake mix, but chocolate is my favorite. It's incredibly moist and fudgy thanks to the added sour cream and pudding mix. It seriously never dries out and tastes fresh for days. Found on internet, I used reciepe #87683 for the frosting and it was perfect and light for this rich cake Show more

Ready In: 40 mins

Serves: 10

Yields: 1 Cake

Ingredients

  • 18  ounces  cake mix, devils food
  • 3  ounces instant chocolate pudding mix
  • 1  cup sour cream (fat free or regular for both works fine) or 1  cup  Greek yogurt (fat free or regular for both works fine)
  • 1  cup  vegetable oil
  • 4  eggs
  • 12 cup milk
  • 1  teaspoon vanilla
  • 1  pinch sea salt
  • 2  cups  semisweet mini chocolate chips (optional)
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Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
  2. Beat together all of ingredients until smooth batter forms, reserving the chocolate chips if using.
  3. Mix in the chocolate chips with a rubber spatula.
  4. Divide batter into two 10-inch round baking pans (you can use other pans and baking times according to the directions on the cake mix box). Bake for 30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
  5. Let cool before frosting.
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