Chocolate Crack Cake

This easy chocolate crack cake recipe will surely be a winner for you and your loved ones. Starting with a chocolate cake mix that is doctored up and then soaked in sweet red wine syrup, this cake never disappoints!

A few years ago we all fell in love with my crack cake recipe, all along I knew I wanted to create a chocolate version, so here we are! This cake was made twice in 24 hours and not a slice went to waste.

The recipe starts off with a chocolate cake mix so you know it's going to be a quick and easy one! Then it's soaked in a red wine syrup which creates an incredibly rich and moist cake. The good news is the alcohol is cooked out so you can serve this cake to anyone.

Ingredients

This cake recipe is basically a doctored-up chocolate cake. Adding the additional ingredients creates a scrumptious cake!

• Chocolate Cake Mix. You can use any chocolate cake mix just make sure it's a standard American size, 15.25oz.
• Instant Chocolate Pudding. You'll need just one small box of instant pudding mix.
• Sugars. We add just a little more sugar to this cake some light brown sugar and granulated sugar.
• Large Eggs. You want your eggs at room temperature to evenly incorporate into the cake batter. You can do this quickly by placing them in a bowl of warm water for 5-10 minutes before cracking them.
• Vegetable Oil. Using oil helps create a delicious moist and spongey cake.
• Water. Just regular old plain water is needed, again room temperature is ideal.
• Pure Vanilla Extract. Chocolate and vanilla pair perfectly together.
• Red Wine. The key ingredient! Since you aren't using a ton of red wine in the recipe I just open the bottle I want to drink and use from that.

Now for the glaze. This creates an incredibly moist cake with an almost crunchy sugar coating on the outside bottom.

• Salted Butter. Since this is a syrup I like to use salted butter to try and balance it all out.
• Granulated Sugar. You'll be cooking your sugar so it carmelized slightly.
• Red Wine. I've used a red blend and cabernet sauvignon for this recipe and both have worked great.
• Pure Vanilla Extract. Vanilla just adds a little something special.

Instructions

To make sure any baked good turns out you need to ensure that you set your oven to 350F/180C so it's properly preheated. Since this is a bundt cake with grooves in the design you will need to make sure you heavily grease a 10-cup Bundt Pan. I tried using a more intricately designed bundt pan and it was too much for this heavy cake since the cake is soaked in the syrup. So ideally go for a more basic designed bundt cake like I use in the photos.

In a large bowl or in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment mix together all cake ingredients until smooth.

Pour the chocolate batter into prepared pan and bake for 40-50 minutes, or until when you insert a toothpick in the center of the cake it comes out with no wet batter.

Place the cake on a wire rack to cool.

Immediately after the cake is done in a small pot combine all glaze ingredients and cook over medium heat for 3-4 minutes.

It should be bubbling and look thicker in texture.

Use a skewer or thin metal piece to poke holes all over the cake.

Pour the glaze on top and let the cake rest for 1 hour before placing a serving plate on top of the cake and inverting it out of the pan.

How long does chocolate crake cake last

Store the cake leftovers in the fridge. Since this is an incredibly moist cake if you live in a warm environment bacteria can form quickly causing mold so I like to keep it in the fridge to preserve the cake.

The cake will last 3-4 days, although it never lasts that long in my house!

The cake is bursting with sweet flavor, you will love this chocolate crack cake.

Sometimes I add a bit of lightly sweetened whipped cream.

How to freeze

You could totally freeze this cake if you wanted but it might lose some of its moistness, so I wouldn't totally suggest it. This is such a quick and easy cake to make I would just

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