Description

Chocolate pudding that's filled with chocolate goodness and a self made sauce underneath that cake texture. Ready in less than an hour, easy and exactly what you need on those days that you know nothing else will do!

Ingredients

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The Cake Dry Ingredients

1 cup cake flour (see Note 1 below to make it with self-raising flour)
1/4 cup cacao powder (Note 2 below on type of cacao)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar

Wet Ingredients

3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup butter (unsalted and melted)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

The Sauce Ingredients

1/2 cup white sugar (granulated table sugar)
1/2 cup light brown sugar
3 tablespoons cacao powder
1 1/4 cups boiling water

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Instructions

Preheat the oven to 177 degrees (177°C) and use cooking spray for the baking pan. Also make sure there's water in the kettle boiling for the end of the recipe.
Combine the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and use a wooden spoon to mix them together. Add the wet ingredients one at a time, mix with the wooden spoon or whisk (whichever you prefer) and mix until it's smooth and lump free. Takes a couple of seconds.
Pour the chocolate pudding cake batter into the prepared baking dish and spread it out evenly.

The Sauce

Combine the sauce ingredients in a plate or bowl and mix them together. Now that you have a sugar and cacao mix pour it evenly over the cake batter. I know it look a lot but still pour it all over the batter. Don't mix anything just pour it over!
Re-boil the kettle water quickly and pour into your cup and a quarter measurements and then slowly pour it over the cake. Don't stir it, don't mix it! The water will sit on the cake batter and that's exactly how we want it!
Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 35 minutes. Remove it from the oven and let it rest 10 to 15 minutes.
Serve with ice cream of softly whipped cream. You can add whatever you like for serving, chocolate pieces, berries, chocolate shavings etc. or you can enjoy as is. Use the sauce at the bottom of the cake to drizzle over the servings.

Notes

Note 1.

If using self-raising flour for this recipe use 1 cup of self raising and add 1 extra large egg. The texture will be different but if that's all you have you'll still get a chocolate pudding cake. Make sure to use the same amount of boiling water and the same for the rest of the ingredients.

Note 2

I use the Organic Health Connection Whole Foods brand but any brand as long as its unsweetened and natural.

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Category: Dessert
Cuisine: American

Nutrition

Calories: 226
Sugar: 32
Sodium: 156
Fat: 6
Saturated Fat: 4
Carbohydrates: 43
Fiber: 2
Protein: 3
Cholesterol: 14