Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Pardon My Dust

Christmas is over and the new year is in full swing...I have been cooking, I just haven't been posting.  I am so NAUGHTY.  I have dug up some awesome childhood memory recipes over the last few weeks, but I can't post them until they've been through the rigorous testing process...which means I gotta make 'em and then have someone eat 'em.  Also, one is top secret for a party so I can't post it until the weekend anyway.

In the meantime, we've been making Chocolate Pudding Cake as the standard Sunday Dinner dessert at our house for the last few weeks.  Never had it before?  Think chocolate cake with a layer of hot fudge pudding on the bottom.  And it does that all in the oven without your help.  You can make it Vegan and you will more than likely have all the stuff in your kitchen already, so no trudging out in the snow for ingredients.  And warm out of the oven with a scoop of ice cream? (Moosetracks!!!)  Fuggedaboudit! 

Chocolate Pudding Cake

3/4 cup sugar
1 cup flour
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk (you can use soy or almond milk)
1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

topping:
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 and 1/2 cups hot water

~Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
~Whisk together the sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
~Mix in the milk, butter and vanilla.
~Spread the batter into a 9x13 pan.
~Mix together the white sugar, brown sugar and cocoa powder.  Sprinkle all the mixture evenly over the cake batter. 
~Pour the hot water over the sugar mixture.
~Bake in oven for 40 minutes.  Don't worry about testing it.  It should look like cake with little pudding volcanoes here and there.
~Let cool for 15 minutes before serving.  Scoop into bowls and serve. 

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