Name: Hot Fudge Pudding Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 60 min
Ingredients: 1 cup all purpose flour; 1/4 tsp kosher salt; 2 tsp baking powder; 3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder; 3/4 cup white granulated sugar; 1/2 cup milk; 4 tbsp butter (melted ); 2 tsp vanilla; 1/2 cup white granulated sugar; 1/2 cup brown sugar (lightly packed ); 4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 1/4 cup boiling water

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Throw all your other dessert recipes away, this Hot Fudge Pudding Cake is all you need! Decadent chocolate cake is layered with the most delicious fudgy chocolate sauce, all baked together in one pan! The real bonus is that it only takes a few minutes to put together.

hot fudge chocolate pudding cake in an 8x8 pan

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Serve this Chocolate Pudding Cake with a little Homemade Whipped Cream , vanilla ice cream, or coffee ice cream.

Now if you read “pudding” and thought this was going to be pudding and now are disappointed, I GOT YOU! Pop over to this recipe for Chocolate Pot de Crème OR Homemade Butterscotch Pudding

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1 Why This Recipe Works

2 Ingredients

3 Step by Step Picture Instructions

4 Serving

5 Related Recipes

6 Did you make this recipe?

7 Hot Fudge Pudding Cake

Why This Recipe Works

The cake and the fudge sauce bake together in the oven! Believe me, this is half the work of making a cake AND frosting!

Here is what happens to the Hot Fudge Pudding Cake in the oven… the amazing chocolate brownie-like-cake rises to the top, THEN the chocolate sinks to the bottom and becomes a decadent fudge sauce.

It is similar to this Berry Cobbler recipe in that the cake rises to the top and the sauce sinks to the bottom.

Ingredients

There are three sections of ingredients for this Hot Fudge Pudding Cake: dry ingredients, wet ingredients, and the topping. Each section gets mixed separately.

Dry Ingredients

Pro Tip: when measuring dry ingredients, like flour, spoon it into your measuring cup and then level it off. Read more about this in this guide to measuring baking ingredients.

Wet Ingredients

Milk- use a 2% or whole milk.

Topping

Step by Step Picture Instructions

Start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees. Also prep an 8×8 baking pan with cooking spray or oil.

In a large bowl whisk together the dry ingredients.

In another bowl whisk together the wet ingredients.

wet ingredients and dry ingredients mixed in seperate bowls

Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir until they are combined into a nice thick batter.

Pour that batter into your prepared 8×8 pan. Spread it out so it evenly coats the bottom of the pan.

making pudding cake batter and putting it in an 8x8 pan

In another bowl mix together the topping ingredients. This will look like chocolate water, don’t worry that is what it is supposed to look like!

Gently pour the hot liquid over the batter in the 8×8 pan.

making the topping for hot fudge pudding cake and pouring it over the cake

Carefully place it in the 350 degree preheated oven for 35 minutes. This is where the magic happens!!!

Remove it from the oven. The cake should have risen to the top and the fudge sauce is bubbling underneath. See the layers here:

showing the layers of pudding cake - hot fudge on bottom and cake on top

Let it cool for about 15 minutes and then serve!

Serving

Serve your Hot Fudge Pudding Cake warm out of the oven. Scoop out the cake ( which is on the top) and then spoon the fudge sauce (that is on the bottom) and drizzle it over the cake.

three plates of chocolate cake, fudge sauce and ice cream

It is excellent with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, coffee ice cream, or a generous dollop of whipped cream.

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