This chocolate pudding cake is made in a big pan and will feed a crowd. The texture was amazing, and it was so moist. It melts in your mouth! It was so yummy and definitely a crowd favorite.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make Chocolate Pudding Cake, you will need the following ingredients:
- Devil’s Food Chocolate Cake Mix, 1 box
- Water
- Vegetable oil
- Eggs
- Milk, divided
- Instant French Vanilla Pudding mix, 1 box
- Instant chocolate pudding mix, 1 box
- Cool Whip Whipped Topping, thawed
- King Size Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar, 1
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to make Chocolate Pudding Cake
- Preheat oven to 325℉. Grease a 10 x 15 x 1 inch cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, beat together cake mix, water, oil and eggs until combined. Pour cake batter into prepared cookie sheet and bake for 18-20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Let cool completely.
- In a medium sized bowl mix 2 cups milk with French vanilla pudding and whisk for 2 minutes. Set aside.
- In another medium sized bowl mix 2 cups milk with the chocolate pudding and whisk for 2 minutes.
- Combine prepared vanilla pudding and chocolate pudding in one large mixing bowl and spread on top of the cake.
- Carefully spread Cool Whip on top of the pudding.
- Use a grater or vegetable peeler to shave off pieces of the chocolate bar and sprinkle over the top of the cake.
- Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.
Can you use any Chocolate Cake Mix?
For this recipe, we used Devils Food Chocolate Cake Mix, however, any chocolate cake mix would work with this recipe.
Or if you don’t have any cake mix, you could also make this into a richer dessert, and use a brownie base as well.
We prefer the cake since this dessert is already pretty rich, but a brownie base would also work.
Storage Suggestions
We recommend refrigerating this cake and keeping it in a container, or tightly wrapped up with saran wrap or foil, for the best results. It will be good in the fridge for about 3 days, but recommended you eat the day of making it.
The cake part can get a little soggy if you wait more than two days, but it is still delicious on the third. After that, the cake will slowly kind of fall apart, and not look as appealing (even though I’m sure it would still taste great).
It’s usually gone at the first day in our house, so we never have to worry about leftovers.
We also don’t recommend freezing this recipe. The texture gets a little weird, and thawing makes the cake more soggy.
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Chocolate Pudding Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 15.25 ounces Devil's Food Chocolate Cake Mix, 1 box
- 1 cup water
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 4 cup milk, divided
- 3.9 ounces Instant French Vanilla Pudding mix, 1 box
- 3.9 ounces instant chocolate pudding mix, 1 box
- 16 ounces Cool Whip Whipped Topping, thawed
- 2.6 ounces King Size Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar, 1
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325℉. Grease a 10 x 15 x 1 inch cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, beat together cake mix, water, oil and eggs until combined. Pour cake batter into prepared cookie sheet and bake for 18-20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Let cool completely.
- In a medium sized bowl mix 2 cups milk with French vanilla pudding and whisk for 2 minutes. Set aside.
- In another medium sized bowl mix 2 cups milk with the chocolate pudding and whisk for 2 minutes.
- Combine prepared vanilla pudding and chocolate pudding in one large mixing bowl and spread on top of the cake.
- Carefully spread Cool Whip on top of the pudding.
- Use a grater or vegetable peeler to shave off pieces of the chocolate bar and sprinkle over the top of the cake.
- Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.
Notes
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Sounds delish!
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Deb
Yum this looks amazing! I think this will be our dessert at our Memorial Day party this weekend. Thanks for sharing!
This looks so good. I’m pinning it so I will remember to make it soon. I’m checking my kitchen, if I have all the ingredients, I might make it today. Looks like a cool summer time dessert too.
All your recipies sound absolutelly delicious, the problem is that most of them, specially does made with chocolate, you use something that here in our country we dont have….like the devils choc mix. Can you give me a recipe of something similar to this cake, please?
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Anita from Uruguay, South America
Drooollllllll!!! I want that 🙂
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Oh, my family would love this cake! It looks sinfully good! Thanks for the great recipe!
Can you mix chocolate and vanilla pudding in same bowl to start with since you are combining later?
That should work too! 🙂
What kind of adjustments do we make now that none of the makers of cake mixes are putting 18.25 oz. in their packages? Everything is 16.5 or less. It’s so discouraging. The recipe, however, looks scrumptious. 🙂
can you make this in a 13 x 9 baking pan?
I have made it in a 9X13 pan with success