Chocolate Pudding Cake

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Art of the Slow Cooker

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Editor's Note: Check out this quick-hit chocolate dessert for a party of kids or for your party of adults looking for something sweet to hit the spot after dinner. This easy, gooey and fun dessert will be the most memorable part of your event. You take your cake batter, add some type of mouth-watering syrup and then bake up this dreamy delight. You can make this in a slow cooker that helps the syrup envelop itself into the cake. It may remind you of soft brownies barely cooked or a slightly heavier chocolate pudding. Chocoholics will not soon forget this tasty morsel.

A pudding cake is a definitively American, decidedly homey dessert, in which a cake batter is topped with some sort of syrup and then baked. In the alchemical atmosphere of the slow cooker, the cake part rises up through the syrup, or maybe it’s the syrup that sinks down through the cake. But at any rate, the exchange produces a moist, brownie-like cake resting on a swamp of chocolate pudding. To serve it, scoop up some cake with its pudding foundation and eat it with a spoon.

Serves6 servings

Cooking MethodSlow Cooking

CostInexpensive

Easy

Total Timeunder 4 hours

Kid FriendlyYes

OccasionCasual Dinner Party, Family Get-together

Recipe CourseDessert

Dietary ConsiderationEgg-free, Halal, Kosher, Peanut Free, Soy Free, Tree Nut Free, Vegetarian

EquipmentCrock Pot

Taste and TextureChocolatey, Rich, Sweet

Type of DishCake, Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Dessert, Dessert

Ingredients

Nonstick oil spray
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup granulated sugar, divided
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, divided
½ cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup vegetable oil
½ cup dark brown sugar
1 cup boiling water or coffee

Instructions

Spray a 1½-quart souffle dish with oil and set aside.
Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, ¾ cup of the granulated sugar, and ¼ cup of the cocoa in a mixing bowl. Add the milk, vanilla, and oil and mix into a stiff batter. Scrape into the prepared dish and smooth the top.
Mix the brown sugar, the remaining ¼ cup granulated sugar, and remaining ¼ cup cocoa in a small bowl; sprinkle in an even layer over the top of the batter. Pour the boiling water or coffee over all. Set the dish inside a 6-quart slow cooker and cover the top of the slow cooker with a folded kitchen towel, and then with the cooker lid. Cook on high for 2½ hours, or until the top of the cake is set and the bottom is still syrupy.
Cut into wedges or spoon onto plates, using the syrup on the bottom as a sauce.

Adult Version

For a more grown-up version, replace half the boiling water or coffee with liquor, such as brandy.

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FrasierFan1901

Jul 27, 2017

I made this recipe over the weekend, and it was soooo good! I thought it was easy to make, and my whole family loved it, too. I didn't use a souffle dish, but placed the batter directly in the greased slow cooker. It turned out amazing!