Simply The Best Chocolate Cake

My 15-month-old daughter is allergic to eggs. We bake a lot of cakes and cookies with my three-year-old, so I have searched for easy, eggless recipes that actually have a decent texture and taste good. Not easy! This recipe is just what we needed. It makes a nice, dense pudding style cake. Not light and fluffy, but heavy and chocolatey. (No crunchy edges and wet middles like when we try egg replacements that don't bind well.) One hint: use smaller chips than the large "chunks" I tried the first time. Also, instant pudding will work if you don't have cook & serve -- just heat on stove. REVISED: If you are allergic to eggs, I would no longer recommend this recipe. There have been too many recalls of commercial cake and pudding mixes. Search some of my other reviews for alternatives. If allergies aren't a concern, then this recipe is an easy way to get a dense, pudding-style cake.

This is quick and easy and good but not "simply the best" chocolate cake recipe. I've made it in a 9x9 for a thicker cake.

This is a recipe I have been using for years (minus the pecans because of a nut allergy) due to my husband's egg allergy. My husband would give it 5 stars. If you can have eggs, the cake might leave you a little unimpressed, but it's still good and it's easy to make (hence the 4 star rating). It's even better when you frost it with chocolate or caramel frosting. It's important to note that you really do have to mix the instant pudding with the milk before adding it to the cake mix and the cake comes out better if you let the instant pudding set first (5 minutes in the fridge is sufficient). You do not need to cook the pudding for this to work. I have used similar recipes with yellow cake and vanilla pudding, carrot cake with vanilla pudding (I added a couple spices to the pudding), and pineapple upside down cake (the yellow cake & vanilla with a little pineapple juice added) just to name a few. The cakes turn out well for the most part and are very dense and moist -- good for sheet cakes, but not for layer cakes. My oven always seems to take a longer time to cook than stated in recipes, so i use the toothpick test to know when the cake is ready. This is an easy cake to make with only a few ingredients if you have someone in your family with an egg allergy.

this was absolutely dissapointing. The cake didn't rise, it was super dense.

This is one of my favorite go-to recipes when I'm short on time &/or energy :) I got this out of my TOH mag years ago, & have made it numerous times. There are a couple of differences though, my recipe uses instant pudding, a whole bag of chips, & calls for a 10 x 15 pan. For so few ingredients & so little time to prepare, this recipe rocks!

loved it...nice to eat so much chocolate!!!

I had not read the four reviews before I made this cake. But,I was in a hurry and when I started puting it together I thought that it might need oil and an egg. So I added those. And the instant pudding did not have to be cooked,so I just put it in with the cake mix. Then I baked it in a 12 inch cake pan and added pecans,brown sugar,and cinnamon on top that I had from another cake.After baking I put home made vanilla iceing on top. My husband said it just might be the best chocolate cake that he has eaten.I'm glad I experimented. It probably wouldn't have turned out as well without the oil and egg.

So quick and easy and so chocolatey! It's a great cake to bring to cookout or pot luck dinner.

It tasted - "old"... even with fresh ingredients. Not much of a chocolate flavor. Not a favorite.