Savor the Hot Fudge Chocolate Pudding Cake, where silky chocolate streams through the tender cake, offering a luxurious twist to your usual chocolate cravings.
Hot Fudge Chocolate Pudding Cake Recipe
Ingredients
For the Chocolate Cake:
- All-purpose flour
- Granulated sugar (can substitute with caster sugar)
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Large eggs
- Vegetable oil (or any other neutral tasting oil)
- Buttermilk (If you don’t have buttermilk, you can make it with milk and vinegar or lemon juice)
- Boiling water (to bloom the cocoa powder)
- Cocoa powder (Dutch processed recommended, but natural unsweetened can also be used)
- Instant coffee
For the Hot Fudge Pudding:
- Granulated sugar
- Light brown sugar
- Cocoa powder (Dutch processed or natural)
- Boiling water
Instructions
Prepare the Cake Batter:
- Preheat your oven to 350°F (conventional) and lightly grease a 7×11″ baking dish with butter.
- In a clean bowl, sift and combine all dry ingredients (excluding cocoa powder) using a whisk.
- To these dry ingredients, add eggs, oil, and buttermilk. Whisk gently until combined. Be careful not to overmix; if lumps form, gently whisk them away.
- Separately, whisk boiling water with the cocoa powder and instant coffee to create a shiny, chocolatey mixture (“blooming” the cocoa powder).
- Fold this cocoa mixture into the rest of the batter until combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish.
Adding the Hot Fudge Pudding Layer:
- Mix granulated sugar, light brown sugar, and cocoa powder in a bowl, ensuring there are no lumps.
- Evenly sprinkle this sugar-cocoa mixture over the cake batter in the baking dish.
- Gently pour boiling water over the contents of the baking pan, using the back of a spoon to ensure even distribution and prevent splashing.
Bake the Cake:
- Bake in the preheated oven for approximately 30 minutes. The cake should feel firm on the top, but a toothpick inserted into the center should come out with fudge indicating it is molten like lava inside.
- Aim to slightly underbake to retain the molten quality.
Serve:
- Enjoy your Hot Fudge Chocolate Pudding Cake hot, ideally with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top to complement the rich chocolate flavor.
This delightful dessert, similar to a molten lava cake, is perfect for warming up and pleasing a crowd during the colder months. Enjoy the baking and the delicious outcome!
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