Okay, this is the most incredible cake I've ever made. It's like a brownie with fudge sauce, but made in the simplest way so that it really isn't any trouble. Oh, and it totally won't make you gain any weight! (disclaimer for that lie, below*) I double dog dare you to make it and not drool in the process:
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
6 Tablespoons baking cocoa
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 Tablespoons melted butter or margarine
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
2 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
3 cups boiling water
Combine flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and baking cocoa in large mixer bowl. In a separate bowl, combine milk, vanilla, and melted butter or margarine. Add to dry ingredients. Beat until smooth. Add chopped walnuts. Spread in a greased 9 x 13-inch pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. Do not turn cake out of pan; this cake makes its own fudge sauce in the bottom. Cut and serve while warm, scooping up the fudge sauce [it's absolutely worth putting those fine words in bold print!] as you serve. Wonderful with vanilla ice cream [total understatement].
I can't claim the recipe as my own. I'm waaaay too much of a fraidy-cat of messing up in the kitchen, that there is no way I'd poor boiling water over perfectly good brownie-like batter. This recipe was posted in a forum somewhere, where a friend of mine found it. I don't know the original creator, but I'm pretty sure she's an amazing person.
*Oh, about that weight gain thing--- "You won't gain weight" ....if you do 414 pushups, 222 situps, and run 33 miles after you eat the whole cake, but I know you're exercising like that anyway, right?
Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm......do you remember having that cake when you were little?? I think I called it Chocolate Pudding cake. You can also leave the cocoa out of the cake part then you will have a white cake with chocolate pudding!! It looks so good!!! Wish I was closet to get a piece!!
Love you
Posted by: mom | July 01, 2009 at 05:09 PM
Looks absolutely delicious.
I thank you.
My hips and thighs do not. :)
Posted by: Darcie - Such The Spot | July 01, 2009 at 08:52 PM
uuuhhhhhhh......... yum.
: P--- (drooling)
Posted by: Tonyia | July 02, 2009 at 11:04 AM
What makes you think the creater of this masterpiece is a "she"?
Posted by: Mac McFatter | July 04, 2009 at 09:30 PM
00PS! creator
Posted by: Mac McFatter | July 04, 2009 at 09:31 PM
Because she could spell?? LOL! ;) You know, now that I'm thinking it over, I'll bet it was a "he." Fellas seem to make the best chefs. I wonder why that is? ~ Lori
Posted by: Lori Seaborg | July 04, 2009 at 11:22 PM
That looks delicious! Really great!
Posted by: tramadol | December 08, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Wow, the cooking method of this dish is great, I'll try it later and I hope it tastes the way it look. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Chinese Ingredients | January 05, 2010 at 04:50 AM