I have YET to find a box cake mix I like that is chocolate. I have done the extender's with pudding AND extra cocoa, the flour, the sugar, blah blah blah. It still tastes like chemicals and not chocolate to me. Maybe I have very sensitive taste buds, but does anyone know how to make a chocolate cake mix taste homemade??????????
I never found a chocolate cake mix I like...extenders, pudding, nothing worked. I make mine from scratch now, the Killer Chocolate Cake recipe on this site is my go-to recipe. It's great and easy!
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2182-Killer-Chocolate-Cake.html
The Darn Good Chocolate cake is good.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2163-0-Darn-Good-Chocolate-Cake.html
I never found a chocolate cake mix I like...extenders, pudding, nothing worked. I make mine from scratch now, the Killer Chocolate Cake recipe on this site is my go-to recipe. It's great and easy!
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2182-Killer-Chocolate-Cake.html
WOW there is ALOT of sugar in that recipe!!!!!!
It looks similar to the one I used thats on the back of my cocoa, but that one didn't have very much cocoa in it, only 1/2 c.
Used the recipe on the back of a tin of Hershey's cocoa powder on my chocolate grooms cake and everyone raved about it. It's a pretty simple mix, and it's very easy to pour into pans. It will look like the mix is watery or runny, but it's supposed to be that way. It baked up really good, and it was really moist.
Triple Chocolate Fudge from BC is pretty darn good!
..that is what I use most often! Everyone seems to love the taste ...I don't like chocolate cake, so I can't judge!
If I am making one from scratch, I use the recipe on the back of the Hershey's cocoa container.
The one on the back of the Hershy's cocoa is my favorite too!!
Don't like chocolate cake 
I made a chcocolate cake today. It was a box mix with the extender. The cake tasted good, but I really want it to be the same texture as the WASC. I can't get over the dense, spongy texture and would really like a chocolate cake without all the crumbs. Any suggestions?
I don't like cake box cakes anyways. I personally don't understand them, that fake-y spongy texture is not like the rich, moist, airy, buttery texture of a real cake at all to me. And, a real cake is not all that much more work, IMO. Plus, for a chocolate cake, I think you taste more chemicals than real chocolate. My sister just told me the wildest thing tonight. Apparently, a friend of hers in Houston heard that cake mixes and store bought icings never decompose or grow mold. She didn't believe it, so she baked a couple of cupcakes from a cake mix and iced them with store bought icing. She then left them out at room temp for 3 years! My sister says she still has them in her kitchen, in open air, and they look so fresh my sister's daughter was begging to eat one. She said they are slightly shrunken, but other than that, mold free and in perfect condition, and even the icing is still kind of soft-ish. FREAKY!
I like this cake:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/101275
Also, I find using good chocolate helps. I like Vahlrona, which they have good prices on at Trader Joes, or Ghiradeli, which they have even at Walmart, and I think it has a much richer flavor than Hersheys or Nestle.
I like Butter Recipe Chocolate. I've always used it for my boxed cake and everyone likes it.
try to do your cake from scrath, I do it that way, and everybody love it
I recently tried the DH Dark Chocolate Cake mix and it wasn't bad (for box cake). It's got a rather strong chocolate flavor compared to others, which I personally prefer. For clients who prefer box cake, I mix one box of this with one box of DH Devils Food Cake and you get a perfect chocolate flavor - not too strong and not too bland.
If you like chocolate cake from scratch, I recommend Toba Garrett's recipe in her 'The Well Decorated Cake' book. Definitely invest in some high quality cocoa and the results are amazing.
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