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This Chocolate Bundt Cake recipe is rich, moist, and delicious! Our recipe tastes just like the cake you can get at the popular Nothing Bundt Cakes shop, but at a fraction of the price.
Featured with this recipe
- A Nothing Bundt Cake Chocolate Chocolate Chip Recipe
- Ingredients in Chocolate Bundt Cake
- Secret to a Moist Cake
- Perfect Cream Cheese Frosting
- Questions About Chocolate Bundt Cake
- Nothing Bundt Cake Copycat Recipes
- More Chocolate Cake Recipes
- How to Make Chocolate Bundt Cake
- Chocolate Bundt Cake (Nothing Bundt Cake Copycat Recipe) Recipe
This Chocolate Bundt Cake is rich, moist, easy to bake and fun to serve! Perfect for any birthday party, anniversary gathering, backyard picnic or Sunday dinner. Take some help from the store with a boxed cake mix and add a few simple ingredients to make it taste especially homemade and delicious. Top with our luscious cream cheese frosting for a show stopping centerpiece that everyone will love.
A Nothing Bundt Cake Chocolate Chocolate Chip Recipe
There are few things I love more than a Nothing Bundt Cake. If you have one nearby, you know what I’m taking about. They are dense and moist and delicious, but they are also a little pricey. You can make this bundt cake for much less than the cost of one at the store. And I guarantee you have most of these ingredients already in your fridge and pantry.
This chocolate bundt cake recipe tastes just like the real thing – plus you can steal a taste of the cake batter and eat as much frosting as you want. I won’t tell!
Ingredients in Chocolate Bundt Cake
Save tons of money by making this copycat recipe yourself. Here’s all you need for a perfectly rich and delicious chocolate bundt cake:
- Devil’s Food cake mix – one box of your favorite brand. Make sure to use the devil’s food cake mix instead of regular chocolate cake mix.
- Chocolate pudding mix – one 3.4 ounce box INSTANT pudding mix.
- Sour cream – one cup of regular sour cream. You can also use plain greek yogurt if you like.
- Eggs – four large whole eggs
- Water – about half a cup
- Vegetable oil – half cup
- Mini chocolate chips – one and a half cups. Add more as a garnish on top of the frosting too!
For the Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Cream cheese – two packages of 8-ounce cream cheese, softened to room temperature.
- Butter – one cube, or half a cup, also softened. Remove the butter and cream cheese from the refrigerator abut a half hour before making the icing.
- Powdered sugar – 3 to 4 cups, depending on how thick you like your frosting.
- Vanilla extract – a couple of teaspoons of pure vanilla extract add such a rich flavor to the cream cheese frosting.
Secret to a Moist Cake
I have tried my hand at several bundt cakes and this truly is the best chocolate bundt cake recipe. What separates this cake from others that I’ve tried is how moist it is. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a cake as moist as this one.
The secret is adding instant pudding mix and sour cream to the mixture. And because you start with a devils food cake mix, it’s such an easy recipe to make. No worrying about the right amount of cocoa powder, baking soda, salt or all purpose flour. All of that is taken care of in the dry ingredients of the cake mix. All you have to do is whisk in the sour cream, water and oil in a large mixing bowl and you’re all set!
Don’t forget the chocolate chips, which adds an extra level of richness and chocolate flavor to the finished product. You could use milk chocolate or semi-sweet, whatever you have on hand.
Perfect Cream Cheese Frosting
You could top this chocolate cake with a simple glaze or a layer of ganache glaze, but if you want a true copycat recipe, you must try this rich cream cheese frosting. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to frost this cake like a pro! All you need is a Ziplock bag and some scissors. Put the frosting into the bag, cut a tiny hole in the bottom corner and get busy! Watch the video in the recipe card to see how it works.
Questions About Chocolate Bundt Cake
The way the pan is designed, round with a hole in the middle, the cakes come out very thick and moist. Unlike other cake pans, which allow for more expansion during the baking process, this pan keeps the batter from expanding, resulting in a moist, thick cake.
Yes! For best results, use baking spray or use a pastry brush to brush vegetable oil all over the inside of the bundt pan. That way the cake comes out in tact. Use a toothpick to check to see if it comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack until ready to frost.
Use a toothpick to check to see if it comes out clean. If it is, you’ll know the cake is done. Once it’s done, remove from the oven and allow it to cool in the pan for at least 10 minutes, but preferably closer to 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack until you’re ready to frost.
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How to Make Chocolate Bundt Cake
Chocolate Bundt Cake (Nothing Bundt Cake Copycat Recipe)
Video
Equipment
- Bundt Cake Pan
- Electric Mixer
- Mixing Bowls
Ingredients
Chocolate Cake
- 1 (13.25-ounce) box devil's Food cake mix
- 1 (3.4-ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix
- 1 cup sour cream
- 4 large eggs
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup oil
- 1 ½ cups mini chocolate chips
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 16 ounces cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3-4 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a standard Bundt cake pan. Set aside. Mix together cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, eggs, water, and oil. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Pour into prepared pan. Bake for 45-50 minutes.
- Remove from oven. Let cool for 20 minutes.
- Remove the cake from the Bundt pan by placing a plate upside down over the Bundt pan. While holding the plate firmly on top, flip both over so the cake comes out onto the plate. Cover the cake with plastic wrap and place it in the fridge overnight before frosting.
- In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter until creamy. Mix in the vanilla, then gradually stir in the powdered sugar. Start with 2 cups, then keep adding more until it is nice and thick.
- Spoon the frosting into a resealable zip-top gallon bag. Clip one bottom corner of the bag.
- Squeeze frosting out of the bag onto the cake in strips, as pictured.
Notes
- Place frosting in a Ziplock bag.
- Cut a tiny hole in the bottom corner of the bag.
- Frost cake in strips over the entire bundt cake.
What size package chocolate pudding?
I'm working on the white chocolate raspberry right now. I will post it as soon as I get it right! I love the poppy seed too.. I will have to do that one next
do you know the carrot cake recipe they use??
I love nothing bunt cakes, but we moved to the east coast and there aren't any out here. Do you have any ideas for some of their other flavors? Like this May they are going to have an almond poppy seed bundt, yum! Loved this recipe!
Cinnamon Bundt cake: use yellow cake mix. swap cinnamon chips for the chocolate chips. For the cinnamon swirl use sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, and a couple of tablespoons of butter. Just enough butter so it has the consistency similar to that kinetic/magic sand.
The pecan cake is the same as the cinnamon except add pecans and subtract the cinnamon chips.
Great suggestions for the cinnamon cake! Thank you, AshMarie!
What is the frosting recipe?
Thanks!
My man said
"that's the BEST cake you've EVER MADE"!
Thanks!
Wonderful copy! I made these for my daughter's birthday as cupcakes. And I am making it for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.
Oh, and I am featuring you on He Married Me For My Cooking. Thanks for sharing!
Ok, so the choice of 3 different chocolate cake recipes is puzzling me… which do I choose? What has been the choice for everyone else? I tried the samples at the Women's expo and it was TO DIE FOR! I just can't justify spending over $30 for a cake though! Thanks so much for posting!
~Starlightlily!
Just the small box, but I'm sure if you used the large box it would be fine.
do you just use the powder? does it matter if it’s instant?
I have used both regular and instant powders and both work great! And no, I haven’t done the carrot cake, sorry!
Do you use the large or small box of pudding??? Excited to try today!
Do you use a small or large box of pudding?
It is the small box. It is 3.4 oz. Thanks for asking!
Oh my gosh! This is the BEST! Tastes just like the original and loads cheaper. LOVE your site and blogs=)
I have to post another THANK YOU from another one of your fans! I made this for my book club and everyone ate three pieces and took a piece home! They loved it! I found that it made a TON of frosting, even when I layered it on, I still had about a cup extra. I used big chocolate chips because I couldn't find minis that weren't a strange generic brand. It was delightful!
So, I made this cake for myself for my birthday. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! It was absolutely delicious and I didn't miss the store bought version at all and had a BLAST making it and sampling the frosting as I went! YUM! I'm going to feature it on my blog this next week and link to your blog as well…just so you know!
Thanks a million times over!!!
Lisa
gourmified.blogspot.com
Are you kidding me!? I want to eat just their frosting plain! Aack! I always want to pick up a cake when I go see family in Sandy. I'm putting this on my list to make this week. Can't wait!!!!!
Thanks!
Lisa
gourmified.blogspot.com
This was an awesome recipe, i loved it. the only thing i did that i thought was a good idea was half the icing recipe
Thanks for the icing tip on the nothing bundt cake recipe
What tip did you use to pipe this? And did you take the frosting all the way into the middle? (If you aren’t putting a cake topper on it, any suggestions for how to “finish” it?
Thanks.
I just used a pastry bag and cut off the tip to the size I wanted. No tip was big enough!
Take the frosting all the way into the middle. Once youve finished frosting the outside of the cake take a knife and swirl/smooth the frosting around the inside of the hole. You may need to add more frosting to completely cover the cake on the inside.
Great tips for frosting! Thanks Erin!
So excited to try your recipe…it really looks tempting. do you have other nothing bundt cake recipes? 🙂
I was looking for a recipe for this cake and tried this one, and it was fantastic! I tried it with cupcakes and they were gone in a heartbeat. Thanks for the recipe!
How long did u bake your cupcakes?
High altitude modifications?
Did you get an answer to how long to bake cupcakes. Mine are in the oven now. ?
Making these wed…what temp and time worked for cupcakes? Thanks in advance!
Nothing but bundt serves samples that look to be baked in a sheet cake pan…….how long would you bake this choc chip recipe in a sheet cake pan?
I made some mini bundts the same size as the bundlets and baked for 15 minutes. For cupcakes I would imagine a little less than that.
Which mini Bundt pan did you use?
Absolutely spot on!!! We ordered a Nothing Bundt Cake for Christmas and I wanted to make one for my husband’s birthday when I found this recipe! Delicious! Thanks a bunch!!!
Made this and it was DELICIOUS!!! And
easy! Kevin called me Martha Stewart, he was so impressed!!!
My cousin found your blog when she was looking for cafe rio pork recipes. She tried it and said it was perfect.
We must practically be neighbors, I live pretty close to the Nothing Bundt Cakes on State. I’ve heard they’re amazing, but I’ve never tried one. I think I’ll just make your recipe instead!
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You have inspired me, this should help me get all of those loose pieces of paper organized. I don’t have pictures but I will have to keep my camera next to the kitchen so that I can add them at a later date.
Wow my first bunt cake and everyone Loved it yay ????