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The best Chocolate Bundt Cake recipe is tender, moist, and has rich mini chocolate chips throughout. We top it with a silky chocolate ganache to make it truly bakery quality. It's a crowd pleaser everyone will devour!
Everyone's Favorite Chocolate Bundt Cake
This chocolate bundt cake recipe is my go-to because it's easy to make and looks so beautiful and impressive. I'm obsessed with the glossy ganache drizzled on top– it looks fancy enough for a dinner party but is secretly so easy that I've made it on busy weeknights when I just need chocolate therapy. If you are a true chocaholic like me, you will love this cake! If you're looking for an even quicker (less from-scratch) version with cream cheese frosting, try my Nothing Bundt Cake recipe.
Try more of my cake recipes, like Chocolate Mousse Cake, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake, Chocolate Cobbler, Coconut Tres Leches Cake, or Biscoff Cake!
How to make Chocolate Bundt Cake:
Prep the Bundt Pan Correctly! We want this bundt cake to be as beautiful as it will be delicious, so let me tell you how to properly grease it! First, we use shortening. Use a pastry brush, or put your hand inside a ziploc bag and rub shortening in a very thin layer over the entire inside of the bundt pan, making sure you grease every bump and crevice. Next, take a pinch of flour and dust it over the pan. While you hold it over the sink, tap the sides of the pan, in a circular motion so that the flour lightly covers the whole pan. Your bundt pan is greased and ready!
Make Batter: Combine dry ingredients in a mixing bowl then melt butter in a saucepan and add oil, cocoa, and water. Bring to a boil then pour into dry ingredients and mix (the hot water helps to “bloom” the cocoa, giving it an even richer chocolate flavor). Stir in buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla then fold in the chocolate chips.
Bake: Pour cake batter into prepared bundt pan then bake for 45-55 minutes. Let the triple chocolate bundt cake cool then drizzle chocolate ganache on top of the cake and serve!
Get your use out of that bundt pan and make my Apple Bundt Cake, Banana Bundt Cake, Red Velvet Bundt Cake, Sour Cream Pound Cake, Rum Cake, or Poppy Seed Cake!
Moist Chocolate Bundt Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup oil, (vegetable or canola oil)
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips, , plus more for sprinkling on top of cake (optional)
For the ganache:
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
For the Chocolate Bundt Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease and flour a standard size bundt pan (make sure to grease it really well so the cake doesn't stick! I spread a thin layer of shortening all over the inside of the pan, then sprinkle a little flour all around and pat and shake the pan until it is evenly coated.)
- Dry Ingredients: In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, set aside.2 cups all-purpose flour, 2 cups granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon baking soda, ¾ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Wet ingredients: Add butter to a medium saucepan over medium heat. Once butter has melted, stir in oil, cocoa powder and water and bring mixture just to a boil, whisking constantly. Pour hot butter mixture into flour mixture and stir.½ cup butter, ½ cup oil, ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 1 cup water
- Stir in buttermilk, eggs and vanilla and whisk mixture until well combined. Fold in mini chocolate chips, if using.½ cup buttermilk, 2 large eggs, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, 1 cup mini chocolate chips
- Bake: Pour mixture into prepared bundt pan and bake 45-55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs.
- Cool cake in the pan for 5 minutes, then invert onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely. Once cake has cooled, make ganache.
- Ganache: Place cream in a large microwave safe bowl and heat for about 2 minutes, or until the cream is simmering. Carefully pour chocolate chips into cream and allow mixture to sit for 5 minutes. Whisk the chocolate and cream until shiny and smooth, about 1 minute.1 cup heavy whipping cream
- Use a large spoon to drizzle the ganache over the cooled cake. Sprinkle with remaining mini chocolate chips, if desired.2 cups chocolate chips
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I originally shared this recipe July 2017. Updated March 2020 December 2025.
I made this cake, and it was an absolute winner, I am now making it for the third time! Everyone who eats it just loves it! Grand slam!
It’s in the oven now and I didn’t read any comments until now because I like to make things as written the first time. I can’t wait to cut into this beauty.
My cake stuck to the top completely which could be due to the chocolate chips. Overall the texture is moist and very delicious but not very pretty.
Loved it …we tried it without the cinnamon as one of the comments mentioned that it overpowered… which I agree, so we skipped the cinnamon part … other than that it came out moist… everyone loved it … A big hit in the family…
Loved it …we tried it without the cinnamon as I read it in one of the comments that it overpowered everything… which I agree … other than that it came out moist … everyone loved it … A big hit in the family.
The cake came out great but for some reason the ground cinnamon just overpowered everything and it’s the only thing I tasted. I thought the ganache would help but it didn’t. Not quite sure why considering I carefully followed the instructions
This cake was a miss. All I taste is the cinnamon and it ruins the cake. Also, the chocolate chips sunk to the bottom and made the cake stick to the pan when it was time to come out. However, I dug out the stuck chips/cake and plopped them in the center of my Bundt and my husband says he likes cinnamon in the chocolate cake so it’s all his to enjoy this week.
This was a fabulous chocolate cake recipe!!!
It was tasty and incredibly moist.
I followed the recipe but reduced sugar by half a cup. Thank you for this great recipe.
Wangeci
Hi! I agree completely that everything “tastes better from scratch”! 😊 A motto in my life for a long time now. I’m curious if this cake produces a fine crumb like NBC? Have you made this with pastry flour before? Thanks for the recipe; can’t wait to try!
This was insanely easy to make and just unbelievably delicious. I never leave comments but I had to for this one. We absolutely did not need the icing (I didn’t even bother)–the cake was so moist and delicious, it stood for itself. Really, spectacular.
My sister and I made this cake for my sister’s birthday and it was a hit! Super moist and delicious! We put extra chocolate chips for an experiment and the cake was just as delicious. Easy to make and the instructions were easy to follow. Thank you!