Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake
Take your chocolate cake to decadent new heights with the addition of cream cheese in this Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake.
There’s no doubt that chocolate cake is one of the most famous desserts on the planet. Whether you have a great go-to recipe that’s beloved by your family or love to test out new ones, you can always kick this recipe staple up a notch.
Even if you’re not a great baker and don’t have all the ingredients normally on hand for baking sweet treats and goodies and decide to go the cake box route (from scratch is always best, but shortcuts never hurt!) you can still make this cake decadent and delicious.
It’s simple, really. Once you have your cake mixed and ready to go all you do is add some slightly sweetened cream cheese and swirl it in. When it bakes the cream cheese will sink into the cake and you’ll notice it will mostly be at the top when sliced.
To make things even easier, you bake this cake in one pan! Yes, not all cakes have to be in layers. And, because this cake is already decadent with the addition of cream cheese, you don’t need those extra layers.
This also makes icing a breeze.
Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake
For the Chocolate Cake:
1 box of chocolate cake mix + ingredients needed
OR From scratch:
- 1 1/2 cups (375 ml) unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon (7.5 ml) baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon (1 ml) salt
- 1 cup (250 ml) sugar
- 3/4 cup (180 ml) cocoa
- ½ tsp ground coffee
- 3/4 cup (180 ml) vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla extract
- 1 cup (250 ml) milk
Cream Cheese Mix:
- 1 block of cream cheese
- ¼ sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions:
-Preheat oven to 350˚
-Flour, butter and parchment an 8″ or 9″ baking pan
-If using a box cake mix, prepare according to directions. If making cake from scratch, mix all dry ingredients in a bowl, add eggs, oil, vanilla and milk and gently beat until ingredients are blended and mixed well. Do not over mix.
-Pour mixture in prepared pan with parchment on bottom.
-Beat cream cheese with sugar and vanilla extract and dollop over cake and with the end of a fork or spoon, swirl it through the cake mix.
-Bake for 35-45 until toothpick comes out clean. Allow cake to cool.
-Once cooled, flip onto a cake plate and smother with Chocolate Buttercream Icing.
If you’re feeling really creative you can pipe out designs to make your cake look even more impressive to your family and friends.
Enjoy!
