Homemade Chocolate Cake Mix Recipe
My homemade chocolate cake mix recipe is better than Betty Crocker and Pillsbury, and it’s entirely from scratch! It’s SO moist and delicious, you’ll never go back to unhealthy boxed cake mixes again!
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 "box" of chocolate cake 1x
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Bowl
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Scale
Homemade Chocolate Cake Mix Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups sugar (I used Turbinado)
- 3/4 cup dutch-process cocoa*
- 1 Tbsp baking powder*
- 1/2 tsp salt
Make a Homemade Chocolate Cake Ingredients
- 1 batch homemade chocolate cake mix recipe (above)
- 3 large eggs
- 1 stick of butter, melted and cooled slightly to room temperature
- 1–1/4 cup milk
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract (make your own)
Instructions
How to Make Homemade Cake Mix
- Combine ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.
- Alternatively, you can layer the ingredients if you’re giving this as a gift.
- This mix will just fit into a quart glass jar. Store with a lid in the pantry and use it anytime you want to make chocolate cake!
How to Make a Homemade Chocolate Cake
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Prepare the homemade chocolate cake mix recipe as directed in a large bowl and set aside. In a medium bowl, combine the remaining ingredients. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir until JUST combined. Do not overstir the batter. A few lumps are fine.
- Butter and flour two 8″x8″ cake pans, one 9″x13″ cake pan or line two 12-cup muffin pans with liners.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes for cupcakes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the middle. Check the cakes at this time too, adding additional time as necessary. Allow to cool completely before icing and/or decorating.
For cakes or cupcakes, use:
- for two 8″x8″ cake pans: divide the batter evenly between the pans
- for one 9″x13″ cake pan: pour the batter into the pan
- for cupcakes: fill the muffin tins HALFWAY full
Notes
* If your cocoa does not say “Dutch-process,” it is likely natural cocoa. If you use natural cocoa, reduce the baking powder to 1 1/2 tsp and add 1 1/2 tsp baking soda.
Nutrition
- Calories: 632