Hot Fudge Sundae Cake

This past week was my was my husband's last week of vacation.  As a goodbye to vacation and a little reminder of how much I love him, I decided to make something delicious and comfort-foodie for my husband. I love to bake special treats for my husband, he is truly amazing and so supportive of me and he absolutely deserves to be spoiled with delicious foods! So I decided to make something chocolatey, gooey, scrumptious and soul-warming! What could be better than a veganized version of Betty Crocker's hot fudge sundae cake?     

This cake is one I can recall my mother making for us when I was little, from a Betty Crocker recipe.  I can still remember that old Betty Crocker cookbook; a thick, ring-bound book with food and age stained pages. Some of the pages were stuck together from old batter. So many people had perused through that old cook book the pages were breaking from their metal rings and falling out. I remember one day that old cook book fell on the floor and all of those hundreds of recipes came spilling out everywhere!  It took us days to get them all back in order.

In any case, this is a delicious recipe for a cake that is reminiscent of bread pudding and chocolate cake. This recipe is super easy due to the fact that there are no mixing bowls or spatulas required! Everything is combined into the pan it will be baked in and mixed with a fork.  A no fuss, no mess easy-peesy recipe!

  Vegan Hot Fudge Sundae Cake

1 cup flour

3/4 cup sugar

2 tbsp. cocoa powder

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup almond milk

2 tbsp. olive oil

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 cup brown sugar

1.4 cup cocoa powder

1 3/4 cups hot water

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.  Pull out an 8 x 8 x 2 baking dish.

2. Mix in the flour, sugar, 2 tbsp. cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.

 

3. Mix the dry ingredients together until well blended.

4. Next add your almond milk, olive oil, and vanilla extract.

5. Mix in the wet ingredients with a fork.  Try to level out the dough as much as possible when done mixing together the ingredients. The mixture will be lumpy, as seen below:

6. Now sprinkle the wet mixture with the remaining 1/4 cup of cocoa and 1 cup of brown sugar.

7. Pour the hot water directly on top of the mixture, don't mix it together!

8. You want the mixture to look like this before going into the oven: You can poke the fork into big pockets of dried cocoa if there are any, but be careful to not mix the mixture all together.  The liquid part will become the gooey chocolate sauce. 

9. Bake the mixture for 40 minutes.  You want the cake to be cooked and fluffy and there to be a substantial amount of chocolate goo around the cake.  Yummy!

When my mother used to make this cake we would eat it with milk on top, that is how I still prefer to eat it today.  I drizzle a bit of soy or vanilla almond milk on mine, which creates a chocolatey milk around the cake.  Mmmm.  Sometimes I even get really sweet and go for coconut milk ice cream on top.  What ever sweet delite you decide to top yours with I promise it will be delicious!

- Night Owl Gal