Chocolate Pistachio Bundt Cake

Often, I am asked to bring a dessert or something to a party, being that I have a website, I feel some pressure in trying to find innovate and great tasting dishes. I will admit to I have a great pleasure when I bring a dish, the dish comes home empty. I was in a panic on Thursday night, I had to bring a chocolate inspired dessert, and I was lacking inspiration. A friend of mine mentioned Chocolate Pistachio Bundt Cake, that she had it growing up.
This Chocolate Pistachio Bundt Cake is easy to make, a boxed cake mix, a box of pudding, chocolate syrup are the main ingredients, I put this cake together in less than 10 minutes, and I have to say this Chocolate Pistachio Bundt Cake was a winner. I brought home an empty dish, with people asking me for the recipe. Looking for a dessert to impress? Give this very easy to put together Chocolate Pistachio Bundt Cake.

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Chocolate Pistachio Bundt Cake

Author: CopyKat Recipes
Recipe Type: Cake Recipes, Dessert Recipes
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 55 minutes
Serves: 10

Chocolate Pistachio Bundt Cake is a great way to make a change with an ordinary box cake mix.

Ingredients

1 18 ounce box yellow cake mix (I really like Duncan Hines Golden Butter Cake)
1 3 ounce box pistachio instant pudding mix
4 eggs
1 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup chocolate syrup

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a bundt pan liberally with non-stick cooking spray. In a large bowl combine cake mix, pistrachio instant pudding mix, eggs, water, and vegetable oil. Mix with a hand mixer for approximately 2 minutes, blend until smooth, scrape the bowl down occasionally while mixing the cake. Remove 1 cup of cake batter and place in a small bowl, add 1/2 cup chocolate syrup to the 1 cup of cake mix. Stir the chocolate syrup mixture until the color is uniform.

Place yellow cake mix batter into bundt cake pan, and then pour the chocolate syrup mixture on top of the yellow cake mix in the bundt cake pan. Using a knife, gently swirl the chocolate and yellow cake mix batters together, do not over stir, you want to have definite marbling. Bake cake in the oven for approximately 55 minutes, you will know the cake is done when a toothpick is inserted it will come out clean.

I didn't serve my chocolate pistachio bundt cake with any icing, I don't think it needs it, this is a very moist cake that has a wonderful nutty chocolate flavor. Next time I make this cake I am going to use the Hershey's Dark Chocolate Syrup.

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Jean

I know that this was posted a long time ago but I just found it to verify if the pudding was instant. I just wanted to mentioned that the recipe I found of my mom’s had a half cup of orange juice and then a half cup of water. I think it makes it more moist. Also I have never swirled the chocolate in. Just pour it on the top and it ends up int the middle of the cake.
- stephaniemanley
  
  Yes, you can you instant.
Mia Tsosie

The thing I did not understand about making this cake was taking out one cup of the batter and putting it in a box? I don’t get it. If you could would you please explain I really want to try this cake, sounds so good
- Stephanie Manley
  
  I meant to type the word bowl, I made a typo. Thank you for noticing I will make the correction to the recipe.
Sophie Holmes

I love this cake! I drizzled some thin icing over the top and sprinkled on some roasted pecans. Also, to make it more like my moms, I only marbled by sticking a spatula in at different intervals. Now, stop reading the comments and go make this cake!
Sophie Holmes

I love this cake! I drizzled some thin icing over the top and sprinkled on some roasted pecans. Also, to make it more like my moms, I only marbled by sticking a spatula in at different intervals. Now, stop reading the comments and go make this cake!
Donnak4

Just like Mom made! Thank you for posting this!
Donnak4

Just like Mom made! Thank you for posting this!
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Do you think if you ground up some pistachios in the blender or food processor it would work to give it a more pistachio flavor? or would it just mess things up?
- Anonymous
  
  I think that would work very well. I would most likely hand chop a few and see how it goes.
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This looks really good. You know it is really nice to not always have to make things from scratch! A good box mix is not a bad thing. Thanks for this recipe!
Annie O

Thank you sooo much for this recipe! My mom would make this cake every year for my birthday when I was growing up. It was my favorite! I never knew how she made it, but it was so moist and delicious. After she died 15 years ago, I tried to figure out how to duplicate it on my own but never had any success. I was just resigned to the reality that the secret died with her. Now, I can make this for my children, and they can taste for themselves this awesome cake I’ve been telling them about for years.

Again, thank you, from the bottom of my heart!
- http://www.copykat.com Stephanie
  
  Thanks so much for the lovely compliment. This recipe was suggested to me by someone else. These types of recipes are the best, the evoke such memories.
Tracey

My mom always made this for coffee hour at church when we were kids. I haven’t had it ages, thanks for reminding me! It’s YUMMY!
Brandi Ryman

Making this cake for a bake sale. Never tried it before, so we will see…..but it sounded great!
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I’m making this one for Mother’s Day for sure.
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I made this cake, using the dark chocolate syrup, IT WAS WONDERFUL!!!!!!! thanks for sharing this recipel
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That looks great! My mother used to make a similar cake, with a pistachio-pudding-based frosting.
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We have a favorite, which was shared by someone at work, called Quick and Easy Double Choclate Chip Cookies. Recipe may have come from the box but it’s so easy we can’t resist.
All you need is 1 box of Duncan Hines Chocolate flavored cake mix, 1 stick margarine melted (1/2 cup), a 12 oz bag of chocolate chips, and 2 eggs.
Preheat oven to 350, Mix cake mix, margarine and eggs together in a bowl, stir in the bag of chocolate chips. Drop by spoonfuls on greased cookie sheet. Bake approximately 12 – 15 minutes, depending on whether you like them soft or crunchy. Remove and cool. It makes about 30 cookies.
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