Does anyone know the ultimate chocolate bundt cake recipe, and also do you need to change anything to transform a normal cake (ie carrot cake) into a bundt cake?

I can’t wait to see the answers YUM! I use the chocolate cake recipe on the Hersheys powedered cocoa, but I don’t know if I can say it is the best, and it is not typically a bundt. I do have the best pound cake recipe, which I make in a bundt pan if you are interested? Fantastic for breakfast/brunch with coffee.

I use a variation of the “Bacardi rum cake recipe”

1 cup mini chocolate chips
1 (520 g) package chocolate cake mix
1 (92 g) package chocolate instant pudding mix
4 eggs
½ cup cold water
½ cup cooking oil
½ cup bourbon

Mix all cake ingredients together, and pour into prepared bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Cool 15 minutes in pan, then invert onto serving plate and let cool completely. Dust with powdered sugar, then drizzle with chocolate glaze.

Glaze
¼ cup powdered sugar
¼ cup water
1 cup mini chocolate chips

In a glass bowl, combine water and powdered sugar. Add chocolate chips, and microwave for 1 minute. Stir, and reheat at 15 second increments until chocolate is melted. Drizzle over cooled cake.

This cake is good with Chambord or orange flavored liqueur instead of bourbon.

Like @JLeslie , I usually use the chocolate cake recipe (and frosting) on the back of the Hershey’s Cocoa tin. It is so moist, not too sweet, and would work well in a bundt pan. The only change I make to the recipe is to add 1 cup strong, hot coffee instead of the 1 cup of boiling water. It gives the cake extra richness!

Instead of frosting, you can make a powdered sugar glaze or just dust it with powdered sugar right before serving.

You would also need to adjust the baking time, but you’ll know it’s done when a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.

If you don’t have a recipe, just bundt….

A more excruciating punt than usual. I am now sculling away.

@JLeslie couldn’t hurt to share :) fire away.

By the way guys I am not american so I don’t have access to this Hersley’s stuff. Plus I would prefer it if the recipes didn’t involve mixes but just raw ingredients.

You can find the recipe for the chocolate cake I mentioned here.

It’s the exact recipe on the Hershey’s tin. You can, of course, use any kind of good unsweetened cocoa. The higher the quality of the cocoa, the better the cake will turn out. And, like I said, use coffee instead of water. Next to the notation for the numbers of servings, you can switch the measurements to metric if you need to. The reviews for the recipe seem to agree that using one full cup of cocoa makes the cake even better, so I’ll have to try that next time!

Really, it’s a great cake. Very easy, only uses one bowl to mix in, and never fails to get many compliments.

Hershey’s isn’t a mix, it’s a common brand of cocoa in the U.S.

by the way, once you purchase a bundt pan and start observing the different styles of them, you see that there are so many different types. classic bundt, star bundt, cathedral bundt, rose bundt, many more, plus different types of mini bundt pans and holiday themed bundts- if you’re into collecting it’s something new to collect!

@MissAusten Awesome, thanks. Will try that soon I hope. I think I may stick to water as I don’t drink coffee so don’t have any around the house.

@MissAusten I am going to try that coffee idea.

@Ame_Evil
Buttermilk Pound Cake

Preheat oven 325 degrees. Grease and flour 1 large bundt pan.

2 sticks butter (margarine works also)
3 cups sugar
3 cups flour
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt (I don’t add this, because I use salted margarine)
1 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs

Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time. Add flour alternatively with buttermilk. Add baking soda and vanilla. Beat all together until well blended. (I use an electric hand mixer, although you can beat by hand, but my hand would hurt, it is a very heavy batter).

Bake about 1 to 1¼ hours. Let cool in pan 10 minutes.

This is making me want to bake a cake, even though I have half a pineapple upside down cake sitting on the kitchen counter.

@MissAusten Did you make it from scratch? My mom used to make a delicious pineapple upside down cake, but she has lost her recipe, I asked her last summer for it. I thought of it because my neighbor had made one for a party from a box and it was terrible, really bad.

@MissAusten Half a pineapple upside down cake? Screw the mansion, I’ll be over!

@JLeslie No, I didn’t make it at all. My mother-in-law baked it, and I’m pretty sure she used a mix. It’s still very yummy, but I think it needed more of the brown sugar goo!

@janbb Come for dinner! Pot roast, potatoes and carrots, homemade Irish soda bread, fresh fruit, and cake for dessert!