4-Ingredient Chocolate Dump Cake Recipe - By Kelsey Smith (2024)

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What is Death by Chocolate cake made of? ›

Ingredients used in Death by Chocolate cakes may include basic chocolate cake mix ingredients, chocolate pudding, chocolate chips, shaved or grated chocolate, whipped cream and powdered sugar.

Dump cakes might have a horrible name, but they're beloved because they're stupidly easy—you literally dump cake mix and cherry pie filling into a baking dish and bake it. This recipe simplifies everything even more by using canned cherry pie filling. It's the definition of foolproof.

Add ¼ cup (30 g) of cocoa powder to each package of mix. Just pour the unsweetened cocoa powder into a mixing bowl along with the dry white or yellow cake mix. Whisk it for about 30 seconds to blend the cocoa with the mix.

The origins of the dump cake are somewhat unclear. It has been suggested that the name originated with a recipe published by Duncan Hines in 1980, though the name is attested in a number of American community cookbooks and periodicals from the 1970s and 60s.

Unhealthiest: Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

One small slice of pineapple upside-down cake can have over 350 calories.

Technically, funeral cake is a chocolate sheet cake with fudge icing and topped with crunchy pecans and big enough to feed a crowd—which you may recognize as Texas Sheet Cake.

However, anyone well-versed in the ways of the dump cake will tell you that there is one rule you should never break when making a dump cake. Since it's not a step that you'll ever see in most other cake recipes, it can be easily missed. The mistake to avoid is simple: Don't mix it.

An Elvis Presley cake is a single-layer classic yellow cake that's topped with a pineapple glaze. Much like a poke cake, the syrup and juices of the pineapple will seep into the cake through fork holes, resulting in a decadent, ultra-moist cake.

Bake until the tops are brown and bubbly, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Serve with whipped cream.

Amp up the flavor.

Simply put, most boxed chocolate cake mixes need more chocolate. I've successfully added up to 6 ounces of melted bittersweet chocolate (or Nutella) to box-cake batter.

Can you just add cocoa powder to cake mix? ›

I find that boxed chocolate cake mixes sometimes aren't very chocolatey so I like to add a couple of tablespoons of cocoa powder. I prefer Dutch Cocoa Powder but you can use natural cocoa powder. Large Eggs.

There's a simple trick to making chocolate desserts taste even better. Sure, cocoa powder and chopped chocolate give anything a rich, chocolate flavor. But if you want that flavor to be more complex and intense, add a little coffee to the recipe.

Linzer Torte is the world's oldest known cake and is named after the Austrian city of Linz. It has been documented as early as 1696. Its oldest recipe is listed in a 300-year-old cookbook!

Do you refrigerate dump cake? There's no dairy in this recipe, but we'd still recommend you refrigerate dump cake. It'll help it last longer in the fridge. Cover the dish in plastic wrap, and store it in the fridge 4 to 5 days.

Vintage cakes are vintage or “retro” because they've been around (and around and around) for centuries. They're known for their frilly, over-piped design and can be traced back to the French Rococo style of the 1700s – an age known for its ornate and gilded designs.

Texture: A normal chocolate cake has a light and fluffy texture, while a chocolate truffle cake has a dense and fudgy texture. The truffle cake is typically richer and more indulgent than a regular chocolate cake.

Choose Death By Chocolate Ice Cream

If you're gonna go, go with this flavor! Made with Hershey's Special Dark® Ice Cream, chocolate chunks, chocolate krispies and brownie bites, Death By Chocolate Ice Cream will happily have you resting in peace.

An extract: “Death By Chocolate – The fanciful name of this famous chocolate cake conjures up images of an exquisite death caused by over-indulgence. There are, however, several tales of passion and intrigue in which chocolate is the cause of death.

Chocolate cake is flavored with cocoa powder, chocolate chips, or melted chocolate. On the other hand, though red velvet cake has cocoa powder that gives it a slightly chocolatey flavor, the buttermilk and vinegar add a tart edge making it different between the two.