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Best Ever 4-Ingredient Chocolate Cake

There's a surprise ingredient in this quick - and best - cake! - by Mel Burge
  • 09 Feb 2022
Prep: 25 Minutes - Cook: 55 Minutes - Easy - Serves 8-10
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This 4-ingredient chocolate cake recipe is the best you'll ever try!

Quick and easy and with a surprise ingredient that will blow your mind, it's the new chocolate cake idea you've been waiting for.

Perfect for an after-school or weekend treat - or even a birthday cake for your next celebration!

Related: Looking for a new hand mixer? Here are some of the best picks

Ingredients

2 litre tub Bulla Real Choc Chip Ice Cream

440g box golden butter cake mix

3 eggs

1 cup Betty Crocker Creamy Deluxe Chocolate frosting

Method

  1. Grease a 20cm round cake pan. Line base and side with baking paper, extending paper 2cm above pan edges. 

  2. Spoon 3 cups of the ice-cream into a large bowl, reserving remaining ice-cream for another use. Stand ice-cream at room temperature for about 45 minutes, or until completely melted. (You will need 2 cups.) 

  3. Sift cake mix into the large bowl of an electric mixer, reserving icing sachet for another use. Add eggs and melted ice-cream. Beat on low speed until combined. 

  4. Increase speed to medium. Beat for a further 2 minutes, or until thick. Pour into prepared pan. Smooth over top. 

  5. Cook in a moderately slow oven (160C) for about 55 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Remove from oven. Stand in pan for 15 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. 

  6. Spread frosting over top of cake. Serve cut into wedges.

     

    TIP! Try making cake with a different flavoured ice-cream – try strawberry or hokey pokey instead. Cake is best made on the day of serving, but can be made up to one day ahead.

Looking for more delicious cake recipes? Try out these ones below:

Super easy birthday cake

Easy carrot cake

Simple caramel cake

Lemon drizzle yoghurt cake

Best ever chocolate slab cake

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