Hasty Chocolate Pudding

This recipe comes from Out of Alaska’s Kitchens (Alaska Crippled Children’s Association, Inc., 1961). My mother has a recipe in that cookbook, from when we lived in King Salmon in 1959, called Fresno Pudding. It’s a raisin pudding, similar to this chocolate one I’m going to tell you about, but so unctuously sweet that it makes your teeth hurt. I digress.

I’ve been dieting for months and had an unstoppable chocolate craving. I frantically whipped together this dessert and dove into it as soon as it came out of the oven. All better now. I like this dish because it’s one step, everything goes into the baking dish at one time, but it comes out of the oven as a cake with sauce.

Hasty Chocolate Pudding

Stir together dry ingredients:

1 cup flour

¾ cup sugar

1-1/2 Tbsp. baking cocoa

3 tsp. baking powder

¼ tsp. salt

Stir together these liquid ingredients and mix with dry ingredients:

½ cup milk

1 tsp. vanilla

2 Tbsp. melted butter

Spread batter into greased 8X8” baking dish.

Mix together syrup ingredients: ½ cup sugar, ½ cup brown sugar, 4 Tbsp. baking cocoa, and 1 cup hot water. Pour over batter in dish. Do NOT stir. Bake 30 minutes in 350 degree oven. Serve with or without whipped cream.