One of our normal traditions every year is letting the birthday girl or boy pick out their favorite meal and choice of dessert. Without fail, my family members pick this chocolate cake recipe for Million Dollar Cake.
Josh’s mom has been making this cake for years and years. While this version is a chocolate cake recipe, I’ve had all kinds of variations of it – with strawberries, bananas, vanilla pudding, chocolate pudding, vanilla cake, etc. That’s the beauty of it. You can switch out the flavors with the same general guidelines. My mother in law recently made this and added Heath bar to it – yum!!
Although I’m not a huge chocolate fan, I will always make room for this chocolate cake recipe. It is so so incredibly good.
For the pictures on this post chocolate cake, vanilla pudding and strawberry slices were used. But again, you can make all kinds of variations based on your favorite flavors and tastes.
Chocolate Cake Recipe: Million Dollar Cake
Ingredients
- 18.5 oz cake mix (and ingredients to make)
- 3.4 oz pudding mix (and ingredients for pudding)
- 8 oz cream cheese
- strawberries, bananas, whatever type of fruit you want!
- 8 oz Cool Whip
- Chocolate bar for garnish
Instructions
- Use a sheet pan for this recipe. If you only have 9x13s, this will make two 9x13s.
- Make cake according to directions. Let cool.
- Make pudding according to directions. Let chill.
- Soften cream cheese. Mix into pudding.
- Slice fruit.
- Layer fruit, pudding mix, and top with Cool Whip on the cake. Chill.
- Shave chocolate (if desired) to garnish.
- You can use any kind of cake mix you want - chocolate, Devil's food, white, etc. You can then use different puddings as well - chocolate, vanilla, lemon. It's a good base for whatever flavor combinations you want.
Video
Notes
Try out some of our other favorite desserts (there are so many we love!):
Mom’s Carrot Cake (my favorite!)- Truffle Cupcakes
- Favorite EVER Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Homemade Strawberry Heart Oreos
Do you have any MUST HAVE family favorites like our Million Dollar Cake?
Becky says
September 12, 2014 at 10:06 amThis may be dumb but do you cook the cake part and cool before adding the pudding etc??
Linda says
August 9, 2014 at 7:30 pmWould love ur recipe’s. U have so many grea ones. Thanks Linda
Heather says
May 4, 2014 at 7:10 pmMy six year old son helped me make this for his birthday today and it was a hit!!! Thanks for the recipe!
DesignedByBH says
February 20, 2014 at 11:55 pmThis looks delicious…and easy, which is a GREAT combination! Stumbled and pinned! :)
– Brooke –
Cindy Eikenberg says
February 20, 2014 at 3:43 pmMique, I really love this and can see why your family asks for it! We have a couple of cakes that are big hits in my family and I know they would love this. Thank you so much for sharing at Best of the Weekend – pinned! Hope you are having a happy week!
Laurie says
February 17, 2014 at 5:35 pmThis sounds amazing!!
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Heather {Woods of Bell Trees} says
February 17, 2014 at 3:07 amI was expecting this to be a scratch cake and I am so excited that it’s not. I mean I don’t mind making a cake from scratch every now and then, but if I can find a delightful recipe that has shortcuts I am all over it. Saving this and can’t wait to gobble some up! Mmmm
Agos says
February 13, 2014 at 1:30 pmThis looks so scrumptious! I also love how easy it is.
Jen says
February 12, 2014 at 5:10 amThis cake looks divine! I may need to try this. I’m also looking at your carrot cake recipe. Carrot cake is my absolute favorite!