Help Wanted: Finding a Recipe!!
03-21-2025, 11:03 AM
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Help Wanted: Finding a Recipe!!
Hello All ... I'm ISO of a recipe, similar to the one below.
Except with a lemon sauce. Or one with caramel or butterscotch sauce.
https://www.dessertfortwo.com/chocolate-cobbler/
I've already made this recipe, and it is a real chocolate punch
... and totally delicious!
Sooo easy to make ... kind of neat, how the layers reverse themselves while baking.
Some of you may remember boxed versions of this, in the different flavours?
As a kid, we were always thrilled when this special supper treat showed up!
Maybe this will bring back happy memories for you too?
THANK YOU for your help!
Except with a lemon sauce. Or one with caramel or butterscotch sauce.
https://www.dessertfortwo.com/chocolate-cobbler/
I've already made this recipe, and it is a real chocolate punch
... and totally delicious!
Sooo easy to make ... kind of neat, how the layers reverse themselves while baking.
Some of you may remember boxed versions of this, in the different flavours?
As a kid, we were always thrilled when this special supper treat showed up!
Maybe this will bring back happy memories for you too?
THANK YOU for your help!
Last edited by QuiltE; 03-21-2025 at 11:06 AM.
03-21-2025, 02:05 PM
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Is this the sort of thing you want? I did a search on "magic cake" as the operative term.
https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/lemon-magic-cake/
I was pretty easily impressed with anything resembling fancy -- remember jello 1-2-3? it separated out into 3ish layers.
https://www.jocooks.com/recipes/lemon-magic-cake/
I was pretty easily impressed with anything resembling fancy -- remember jello 1-2-3? it separated out into 3ish layers.
03-21-2025, 02:12 PM
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My aunt use to be in charge of the cooking at Cracker Barrel long ago. Back when the food was made there, not brought in to be baked/cooked/heated . This is the chocolate cobbler recipe she used then, scaled down to family size. Look to be the same.
Chocolate Cobbler
6 Tbsp butter
1 cup self rising four
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)
1 and 1/2 Tbsp Hershey's cocoa
1/2 cup milk ( skim is fine)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup Hershey's cocoa
1 and 1/2 cup boiling water
Melt the butter in a 13x9x2 inch baking pan or large glass lasagna dish in a 35o oven.
Combine the flour, 3/4 cup sugar, pecans, 1 1/2 tbsp cocoa, milk and vanilla in a small bowl. Spoon mixture over the melted butter. DO NOT STIR TO MIX.
Mix the 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup cocoa together and sprinkle back and forth over the batter. DO NOT STIR TO MIX.
Next, pour the boiling water (I had boiled it in the microwave as I was getting the other stuff together) over the top. DO NOT STIR TO MIX.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Cool. Serve as is or with ice cream.
Chocolate Cobbler
6 Tbsp butter
1 cup self rising four
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)
1 and 1/2 Tbsp Hershey's cocoa
1/2 cup milk ( skim is fine)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup Hershey's cocoa
1 and 1/2 cup boiling water
Melt the butter in a 13x9x2 inch baking pan or large glass lasagna dish in a 35o oven.
Combine the flour, 3/4 cup sugar, pecans, 1 1/2 tbsp cocoa, milk and vanilla in a small bowl. Spoon mixture over the melted butter. DO NOT STIR TO MIX.
Mix the 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup cocoa together and sprinkle back and forth over the batter. DO NOT STIR TO MIX.
Next, pour the boiling water (I had boiled it in the microwave as I was getting the other stuff together) over the top. DO NOT STIR TO MIX.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Cool. Serve as is or with ice cream.
03-22-2025, 10:27 AM
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Was it a Dr. Oetker box? I remember it well, especially the lemon version.
As a kid, we made a recipe called Hasty Pudding--a special favourite on Saturdays. It always seemed like a treat after helping Mom clean the house.
Hasty Pudding (a recipe that is at least 70 years old)
1/2 c. white or brown sugar
2 tbsp. butter
1 egg
1 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
pinch salt
1/4 c. raisins or dates (optional)
1/2 c. milk
Cream butter and sugar, add egg, then add dry ingredients alternately with milk.
Pour into a greased casserole.
Sauce:
1 c. brown sugar'
pinch salt
1/4 tsp. each nutmeg and cinnamon
2 c. boiling water
Combine and simmer 10 minutes. Then carefully pour over batter.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.
As a kid, we made a recipe called Hasty Pudding--a special favourite on Saturdays. It always seemed like a treat after helping Mom clean the house.
Hasty Pudding (a recipe that is at least 70 years old)
1/2 c. white or brown sugar
2 tbsp. butter
1 egg
1 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
pinch salt
1/4 c. raisins or dates (optional)
1/2 c. milk
Cream butter and sugar, add egg, then add dry ingredients alternately with milk.
Pour into a greased casserole.
Sauce:
1 c. brown sugar'
pinch salt
1/4 tsp. each nutmeg and cinnamon
2 c. boiling water
Combine and simmer 10 minutes. Then carefully pour over batter.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.
03-22-2025, 10:57 AM
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It looks like lemon cobbler is made with lemon pie filling per https://myhomemaderecipe.com/recipes...-lemon-cobbler
and the caramel cobbler uses brown sugar per https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/d...l-cobbler.html
and this butterscotch cobbler uses an egg https://12tomatoes.com/carmens-butterscotch-cobbler/
Many of the butterscotch cobblers include fruit.
and the caramel cobbler uses brown sugar per https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/d...l-cobbler.html
and this butterscotch cobbler uses an egg https://12tomatoes.com/carmens-butterscotch-cobbler/
Many of the butterscotch cobblers include fruit.
03-22-2025, 02:36 PM
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Hello Everyone!
Oh what wonderful delights you all have for me!! Thank You!
Only one problem, with all of your suggestions … I need to have a lot of company to give them all a fair try! Sadly, like many recipes, not all can be easily cut back to make one or two servings.
Do hope that some of the rest of you will try at least one of the recipes, and give us all a Recipe Review!!
@Iceblossom … Oh that looks SO good! I was actually looking for a hot version with sauce, but this one really jumps at me as a lovely spring/summer dessert, when warmth in the tummy isn’t so important!
@Onebyone & Aunt!! … Very similar to the original one I posted, but even easier, being that you don’t even make the batter for the base. Any reason to not put both layers in the pan early in the day, and then just add the boiling water when you go to bake at supper time?
@aashley333 … don’t stop at just trying one!! Let temptation get you. Then, please share your Recipe Review!
@Minnesewta-sam … Googled with “magic” and found oh so many!! (thanks to you and IceBlossom, too). But where does one even start?
@GingerK … ha! My childhood was long before Dr. Oetker existed (I think?). Can’t remember what brand the box mixes were though? You had me curious and I googled, but only a lemon pudding mix from Dr O came up, no pudding cake mix. Funny how google works at times, that you got it and I did not. Your reference to your 70+yo family recipe got me thinking: OMG I know there’s a recipe for Wash Day Pudding. I wonder? Sure enough, same vintage, in a 1949 Women’s Institute cookbook. It's always my go-to book, being that Mom kept in the kitchen drawer for when she needed a recipe. All the contributors were local ladies that I remember well! Why did I not check it first? Silly Me! Sure enough, it did not disappoint, as Wash Day Pudding is almost a match to yours. In fact, two versions. Both very similar to yours, except neither cook the sauce. I’ll include the recipes in another post.
@OurWorkbench … Looks like you just scored a Cobbler Hat Trick!! Now I have candidates for all flavour desirees!
A couple of questions, for one and all!
?Canned Lemon Pie Filling? … Seems like it no longer exists here in Canada. Do you think I could make a stove top version, to use instead of the canned? Unless per chance our other resident Canadian on this thread, GingerK, knows where to find it?
?Butterscotch Cobbler? … any reason not to substitute maple syrup for the corn syrup? (see recipe link from OurWorkbench)
Like I said, sure hope others will do some kitchen testing ... and let us know!
Thank You All, so much!
Oh what wonderful delights you all have for me!! Thank You!
Only one problem, with all of your suggestions … I need to have a lot of company to give them all a fair try! Sadly, like many recipes, not all can be easily cut back to make one or two servings.
Do hope that some of the rest of you will try at least one of the recipes, and give us all a Recipe Review!!
@Iceblossom … Oh that looks SO good! I was actually looking for a hot version with sauce, but this one really jumps at me as a lovely spring/summer dessert, when warmth in the tummy isn’t so important!
@Onebyone & Aunt!! … Very similar to the original one I posted, but even easier, being that you don’t even make the batter for the base. Any reason to not put both layers in the pan early in the day, and then just add the boiling water when you go to bake at supper time?
@aashley333 … don’t stop at just trying one!! Let temptation get you. Then, please share your Recipe Review!
@Minnesewta-sam … Googled with “magic” and found oh so many!! (thanks to you and IceBlossom, too). But where does one even start?
@GingerK … ha! My childhood was long before Dr. Oetker existed (I think?). Can’t remember what brand the box mixes were though? You had me curious and I googled, but only a lemon pudding mix from Dr O came up, no pudding cake mix. Funny how google works at times, that you got it and I did not. Your reference to your 70+yo family recipe got me thinking: OMG I know there’s a recipe for Wash Day Pudding. I wonder? Sure enough, same vintage, in a 1949 Women’s Institute cookbook. It's always my go-to book, being that Mom kept in the kitchen drawer for when she needed a recipe. All the contributors were local ladies that I remember well! Why did I not check it first? Silly Me! Sure enough, it did not disappoint, as Wash Day Pudding is almost a match to yours. In fact, two versions. Both very similar to yours, except neither cook the sauce. I’ll include the recipes in another post.
@OurWorkbench … Looks like you just scored a Cobbler Hat Trick!! Now I have candidates for all flavour desirees!
A couple of questions, for one and all!
?Canned Lemon Pie Filling? … Seems like it no longer exists here in Canada. Do you think I could make a stove top version, to use instead of the canned? Unless per chance our other resident Canadian on this thread, GingerK, knows where to find it?
?Butterscotch Cobbler? … any reason not to substitute maple syrup for the corn syrup? (see recipe link from OurWorkbench)
Like I said, sure hope others will do some kitchen testing ... and let us know!
Thank You All, so much!
Last edited by QuiltE; 03-22-2025 at 02:41 PM.
03-22-2025, 02:55 PM
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Mrs. Hooper’s Wash Day Pudding
Mix all in the dish it is to be baked in.
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp butter
1 cup flour
A little salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup raisins or chopped dates
Mix together and pour overtop batter. Do not stir/mix the two layers.
1 tbsp butter
1-1/2 cups brown sugar
Nutmeg
2 cups boiling water
Bake for 30 minutes.
Mrs. Kelloway’s Wash Day Pudding
Mix to a stiff batter, in bowl/pan that you are going to bake it in. Do not grease pan.
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup raisins or dates
Milk (as needed to form stiff batter)
Mix together and pour overtop batter. Do not stir/mix the two layers.
1 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp butter
2-1/2 cups boiling water
Bake in oven.
…………………..
Of course, no oven temperatures, as they’d be wood-fired ovens/stoves!
Mix all in the dish it is to be baked in.
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp butter
1 cup flour
A little salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup raisins or chopped dates
Mix together and pour overtop batter. Do not stir/mix the two layers.
1 tbsp butter
1-1/2 cups brown sugar
Nutmeg
2 cups boiling water
Bake for 30 minutes.
Mrs. Kelloway’s Wash Day Pudding
Mix to a stiff batter, in bowl/pan that you are going to bake it in. Do not grease pan.
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup raisins or dates
Milk (as needed to form stiff batter)
Mix together and pour overtop batter. Do not stir/mix the two layers.
1 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp butter
2-1/2 cups boiling water
Bake in oven.
…………………..
Of course, no oven temperatures, as they’d be wood-fired ovens/stoves!
