Quick and easy, this Chocolate Pudding Cake is a delicious chocolate cake covering a gooey chocolate pudding. One chocolate dessert that you don’t want to miss out on.

I love me some chocolate, always have always will. I’m more of a chocolate person than a real candy person. Like I would rather have a candy bar than gummy worms if you know what I mean.

When it comes to chocolate desserts like this Chocolate Pudding Cake, I simply can’t get enough. It is so easy to whip up and it is absolutely and utterly delicious.

This recipe has been passed down in our family for ages and I have been making it for years and the whole family absolutely adores it. They can’t get enough just like me!

My kids love chocolate and they love pudding so this is a winner all around, they are kind of picky about their desserts but when it come to this one they are all about it.

Chocolate Pudding Cake is seriously a fun and easy recipe that is kind of like magic, the sauce you pour over the top creates this nice pudding layer in the bottom!

I mean cake and pudding together? How could you go wrong? It’s like the absolute perfect dessert! That is if you like chocolate, if you don’t then I’m sorry.

Some of our other favorite chocolate recipes we have on our site include Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies, Chocolate Lava Cake and Chocolate Banana Bread.

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:

With easy to find ingredients this Pudding Cake comes together quickly.
You can choose to have a more pudding cake or a more cake like cake.
This bakes up quick so you don’ have to wait too long to consume.

INGREDIENTS NEEDED (FULL RECIPE BELOW):

Cake flour
Granulated sugar
Cocoa powder
Baking powder
Salt
Milk
Butter
Vanilla extract
Brown sugar
Instant coffee granules
Boiling water

HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE PUDDING CAKE, STEP BY STEP:

Cake:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 6-quart casserole dish with nonstick cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl combine the cake flour, granulated sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
Add the milk, butter and vanilla and stir to combine. Pour into the pan and spread evenly.

Chocolate Sauce:

In a mixing bowl, combine the granulated sugar, brown sugar, and cocoa powder.
Heat the water until it’s boiling in the microwave or on the stovetop, then add the instant coffee and stir to combine. Pour over the sugar mixture and combine.
Pour chocolate sauce over the top of the cake. Do NOT stir into the cake.
Place the cake in the preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes if you want to have a runny pudding sauce on the bottom and a cake top. If you prefer, bake for 30 minutes and it will be nice and gooey, but a little more cake like.
Serve with ice cream or whipped topping.

See how easy it is to make this Chocolate Pudding Cake! There really is only two different steps which makes it simple and fun and not to mention super tasty.

We love the texture of this cake so much. It is one of those ones that once you try it you just want more and more. Top it with ice cream or whipped topping and sold!

WHAT IS A PUDDING CAKE?

A pudding cake is essentially exactly what the name says, it’s a pudding and a cake in one. While baking the cake makes it’s own sauce or “pudding” that goes to the bottom while the cake portion rises.

It creates a moist pudding sauce on the bottom while the top is a cover of a cake so its cake on top and pudding on bottom, two desserts in one.

Doesn’t this photo just make you want to lick the whole spoon! You see how it is a nice most cake but it has the gooiness of the pudding mixed in?

Literally this recipe is the best of both worlds. It sets up really nicely and you can choose depending on how long you bake it if you want it to be more pudding or cake like.

We like to have the more pudding like in ours so we bake for the recommended time for a more pudding consistency but I have included both baking times in the directions depending on what outcome you like.

My kids like to call this “magic cake” because it essentially bakes and the top becomes the bottom. Some other desserts that are like that include:

I have actually tired all three of those desserts and am obsessed with them all. They really are right when they say that baking is a science!

HOW TO STORE:

This cake can be stored in the refrigerator either in the baking pan or in an airtight container for up to 3-4 days.

You can serve this warmed or cool, to heat just place a portion of the cake in a microwave safe bowl and heat in microwave for a few seconds until warmed through.

I do not recommend freezing this cake as once it thaws the pudding portion tends to like to separate and you will have an overly wet cake.

TIPS AND TRICKS:

You can bake this for two different times to either get a more pudding like cake or a more cake like cake, see below on times.
This is best if let cooled for a bit so the pudding bottom has time to set up a little bit.
We like to use coffee granules in our sauce as coffee brings out the flavor of chocolate.
Make sure that your water is boiling, that is essential to this recipe.
DO NOT mix the sauce and the cake together, that is important for this to turn out.

If you love two desserts in one then you have to give my Chocolate Pudding Cake a try, once you try it you will never go back!

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Chocolate Pudding Cake