Moist Hot Fudge Chocolate Pudding Cake Recipe

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!