This is my fourth (and maybe not final) Tasty Tuesday from the January 1978 Workbasket Home Arts Magazine. My previous three posts: Cottage Cheese Crumb Cake, Chocolate Dessert, and Banana Dessert were all good…but I am most excited about this one.
I’m going to start by saying, it’s my birthday and I want chocolate! And since I’m in charge of my own cake, this is what I’m making!
Lets just get into this, because I need to eat some cake 🙂
Chocolate Cake Pudding
Start by sifting flour. I don’t have a fancy sifter, therefore I used a fine mesh strainer.
I used cake flour—mostly because I had it—if I hadn’t, I would have used all-purpose. The recipe calls for it to be sifted AND because it’s cake flour, it needs to be sifted.
Cake flour is milled to a finer consistency than all-purpose flour and thus more prone to lumps.
Cocoa powder also has a tendency to get lumpy so, strain it too.
Add remaining dry ingredients: sugar, salt, and baking powder. Give the dry ingedients a mix.
Now more sifting. Sift the mixed dry ingredients into the baking dish. The recipe calls for a 9-inch square pan, however, I was in tears this morning looking for mine and couldn’t find it.
Still can’t find it!
Now it’s time for the wet stuff: milk, butter, and vanilla.
Make sure you do a good job mixing, corners can be places where dry ingredients like to hide.
Spread it to a nice even layer.
Topping time!
Mix dry topping ingredients: sugar, brown sugar, and cocoa powder.
Sprinkle over the batter. I chose to use my strainer, because…again, I’m lazy: yes. But also, it’s kinda fun to sift it.
We’re almost done!
Two more steps: pour and bake.
Pour your liquid of choice (water or coffee) over the whole thing. This seems weird, yes, but I have come to just have faith in these recipes. They have all turned out well…even the hot dogs, fruit cocktail and rice one—I should make that again soon.
Bake at 350º for about 40-45 minutes. I promise, it gets solid when you bake it. But still a little bubbly! 🙂
Enjoy!
P.S. I’m serving with whipped cream, although I will try one with sour cream.
Chocolate Cake Pudding
Ingredients
Cake
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Flour, sifted
- 2 tsp Baking powder
- 2 tbsp Cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 3 tbsp Butter, melted and cooled
- 1 tsp Vanilla
Topping
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar I used a combo of both light and dark
- 1/4 cup Cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup Water or Coffee I used coffee
Instructions
- Sift sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, and cocoa in a greased 9-inch square pan.
Stir in milk, melted butter, and vanilla.
Spread batter.Mix topping sugars with cocoa powder, sprinkle over batter. Pour water or coffee over the cake mixture and bake at 350º for 45 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched. Serve warm or cool with whipped or sour cream.
