The Boy bakes...

A few weeks ago The Boy came home with an assignment to read Chocolate Fever, make "something chocolate" and take pictures. In hindsight, many of his friends made hot chocolate, so maybe our project was ambitious, but, hey, you can't go wrong with hot fudge chocolate sundae cake, can you?

Her you see the recipe, in the cookbook full of family recipes that my mom made for my brother and I.  The picture on the page would be my brother and I on Easter when I was probably The Girl's age.

 Like any good cook, The Boy gathered his ingredients first...

 Then he gathered his tools and put on a Union Jack apron--a Fourth of July gift from our English friend--get the irony?

 We had a conversation about how to measure flour...no packing

 Mix the dry ingredients...

add the wet...

 stir it all together

 and pour/scrape it into a pan--a heart shaped one, in honor of Valentine's day, in this case.

 Next comes the sauce

 He is very serious about this project.

 Ready to go in the oven!

 Get the toppings ready, while the oven preheats...

 Then wait patiently...

 Looks like it is done!  See how the sauce has sunk to the bottom and then bubbled back to the top?  Yum!

 Spoon it up, add ice cream, and...









eat it up!









I suppose you would like the real recipe....here it is:

Hot Fudge Pudding Cake
1 C flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 t salt (although I usually leave it out)
3/4 C sugar
2 T cocoa
1/2 C milk
2 T oil
1 C chopped nuts (I usually leave these out, too)
1 C brown sugar
1/4 C cocoa
1 3/4 C hot water

Blend flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and 2T cocoa.  Stir in milk and oil.  Add nuts if desired.  Spread in 9x9 inch pan.  Sprinkle with brown sugar and 1/4 C cocoa.  Pour hot war over entire batter.  Bake 45 minutes at 350 degrees.  The cake mixture will rise to the top and the sauce will settle to the bottom.  Cut into squares (or spoon out). Serve warm with ice cream.