Here is my version of Hot Fudge Pudding Cake


Cake Recipe

2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 cup sugar
4 heaping Tablespoon cocoa
1 cup milk
4 Tablespoon shortening

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Pudding Recipe

3 Cups Sugar
12 heaping tablespoons cocoa
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5 1/4 cup hot water



Melt the shortening in a bowl. Add the sugar and mix. In a seperate bowl mix the flour and cocoa and add the baking powder.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.

No need to butter or flour the pan. So pour the cake mix into a deep baking dish. Spread the batter over the bottom of the pan.

Combine the sugar and cocoa for the pudding in a bowl. Mix well. Spread this evenly over the batter.

Now slowly pour water over the sugar/cocoa mix until you have added all the water.


Bake for 40 to 45 mins at 350 degrees.

When it is done it will have the cake floating at the top and the cake will be cracked and dry looking. That is normal for this cake. Serve with ice cream or as is.

I think it is even better after it has cooled and set. When you first take it out of the oven the pudding is more like chocolate sauce but as it cools it will set more into a pudding consistency.

Enjoy!!

It's printing out as I type this Rhonda - this is an intriguing one for me, I have never heard of anything like it. Can't wait to try it.

Lesley if you aren't a lover of deep chocolate you can do less cocoa. I happen to like it to taste like chocolate and not just look light brown.

So I do go heavy on the cocoa which is not the original recipe. It is just a matter of taste!!

I think I died and have gone to choc. heaven. Going to make this soon.

Yes wvdek this is to die for!!!! I haven't made it in awhile. The really funny part is that the pudding ingredients start out on top of the cake batter and the pudding ends up on the bottom with the cake rising through the water and looking like a desert on the top!! It will be cracked some but it is delicious!!! It isn't the purtiest cake you've ever seen but if you are a chocolate lover this is absolute heaven!!

I make this and it is totally devine! It is amazing the transition it makes during baking..
oooo so good

I'm SO mad at you!!!!!! I just started a diet today!!!!! nope, guess I'll start it tomorrow!

Thanks for the recipe!!!

Oh but this is so worth it!!! LOL

Several times I've had very large servings ( :oops: ) of a hot fudge pudding cake with vanilla ice cream on top.
It was better than.....anything!
I don't know if it was this same recipe but, Oh Boy, it was good!
I've copied it all down.
Thanks for posting it.

okay -- when is the milk added? I added it to the shortening/sugar mix. But, when all mixed - before baking, it's rather dry....is that what it's supposed to be like?