Chocolate Pudding Cake Recipe: This is a combination of pudding and cake that's moist, rich and chocolatey. It's delicious served warm with ice cream.
This chocolate pudding cake recipe is so good. You're going to love it. It's the perfect combination of cake and pudding goodness, and so good served hot with vanilla ice cream. I love to serve it for a dinner party, because guests always love it, and you can do most of it ahead, and then put it in the oven while you're eating dinner and serve it to your guests still warm. Also it's a great recipe for holiday entertaining too, or any special occasions, but also easy enough to make anytime after dinner.
Cake and Pudding
The magic of this recipe is that that the cake and pudding form together. The ingredients are layered but not stirred, and as the dish bakes, it turns into a chocolate cake with a pudding chocolate sauce. When you assemble a pudding cake you add the simple chocolate cake batter to the pan, followed by a layer of sugar and cocoa powder that's layered over the batter and not stirred.
Lastly you add a layer of hot water, and again don't stir.
As the dish bakes the sugar layer and hot water seep down through the cake batter and form a pudding or chocolate sauce beneath the cake -arguably the best part, and the cake rises to the top.
As you scoop out the cake, the hidden layer of chocolate fudge sauce is revealed beneath it. It feels like a bit of cooking magic.
The pudding cake is easy to make and made from simple ingredients. You can make pudding cake in different flavors, but the hot fudge chocolate pudding cake is a big favorite.
Serve Warm
This pudding cake is best served warm to experience the gooey hot fudge type sauce. We love it paired with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, which melts slowly into the cake and sauce and is so delicious.
If you're making this for a dinner party, you can prepare the cake mixture and put it in the baking dish, Also make the sugar and cocoa powder mixture that is the next layer, but don't put it on top of the cake batter yet. Just before serving dinner sprinkle the sugar and cocoa mixture of the top of the batter, and then add the cold water layer. Put it in the oven to bake while you eat dinner, and it will be ready to serve warm in time for dessert.
Leftovers
If you have any hot fudge pudding cake leftover, you can store leftovers in the fridge in an airtight container or wrapped in plastic wrap. Reheat leftovers in the microwave in a microwave friendly container.
If you are a fan of chocolate dessert you will love this hot fudge cake with creamy chocolate pudding sauce. What could be better than a layer of moist chocolate cake with rich chocolate fudge sauce? The flavor of chocolate comes through in every bite. My chocolate loving daughter considers this her favorite dessert of all time. And it's really easy with little effort to make. It has the perfect amount of sweetness. And don't skip the vanilla ice cream, it offers a little reprieve from the intense chocolate that all the chocolate lovers adore in each bite. The combination of the hot and cold also adds interest to the dish. This dessert is pure comfort food, and sure to become a new favorite recipe.
This dessert looks great served in little dessert dishes. Guests will love it along with a cup of hot coffee for the perfect impressive but easy to make fudgy dessert.
Recipe
Chocolate Pudding Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup white sugar
- 2 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
- 3 tablespoon melted butter
- 3 oz bittersweet chocolate coarsely chopped
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
- 1 cup cold water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly butter an 8-cup baking dish.
- Combine the flour, ½ cup white sugar, baking powder and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment.
- Add the milk and vanilla, and stir until thick and smooth.
In a small bowl, mix the butter with 3 tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa until blended. Stir the cocoa mixture and chopped chocolate into the four mixture, until just combined. - Turn the cake mixture into the buttered baking dish.
- In a small bowl combine ⅓ cup white sugar, brown sugar and 2 tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa. {If your're making this for a dinner party, stop here and wait unti just before serving dinner to complete these next steps. Put it in the oven to bake while you eat dinner, and it will be ready in time for dessert. }
- Sprinkle the mixture evenly over the top of the pudding mixture. Do not combine it.
- Carefully pour the water over the top of the sprinkled dry mixture, being careful not to combine it either. DO NOT STIR.
- Bake in the centre of 350F oven for 25 to 30 minutes until the top of the cake is slightly glazed on top and the sauce is bubbling around the edges.
- Serve hot with vanilla ice cream.
Nutrition
With this hot fudge pudding cake recipe, life really is a party.
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