Magical Mystical Chocolate Pudding Cake

This morning The Southern Lady Cooks informed me that it was International Chocolate Day, and she posted this recipe for Chocolate Pudding Cake. It looked really gooey and delicious so I checked out the recipe. Low in fat. No eggs? Ah, but it has lots of sugar … I could probably cut some of the sugar, and replace some of that flour with whole wheat flour and it would be a little bit healthier, right?

As I read through the instructions, though, I got a little confused.

I read it again. Hmm. Really? That’s how you make it? Well, ok, I thought, I’ll give it a shot. But I have to take pictures so if this turned out I could show you … and to my utter amazement, it did!

Magical Mystical Chocolate Pudding Cake

First, find a casserole or baking dish to make this in. She uses a 7.5 x 11 inch rectangular dish, but said a 2-quart casserole dish would do just as well. Well, I’m not sure which of my baking dishes is a 2-quart size (I know I should really know these things!), but I figured this one would do. (In hindsight, I think I could have used the smaller one … oh well!)

So right in my casserole pan, I measured:

• 2 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup flour
• 3/4 cup white whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder

I mixed those together well.

Then I mixed in 2/3 cup of low-fat milk and a teaspoon or so of vanilla. It made this thick dough that I had to sort of pat down to cover the bottom of my casserole dish.

Now in a separate bowl I measured 5 tablespoons cocoa and 3/4 cup brown sugar:

I mixed those 2 things together and sprinkled it over that thick batter stuff in the casserole dish:

Okay, now here comes the really strange part. Pour 1 1/2 c. of boiling water over top of everything in the casserole dish.

Now put it straight in the oven. Just put it in the oven just like that. With the water on top. Really.

At this point I was really wondering is this really going to work? Boiling water on top? I put it in the oven and hoped for the best.

Bake at 350 degrees F. for 35 minutes. It came out of the oven looking like this:

Is that magical or what?

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