Recipe #10 Day 10

Day 10 of 30
Peanut Butter and Hot Fudge Pudding Cake

SUPER EASY ! This was a great recipe to "try out" since I didn't need to purchase any new ingredients, I already had everything, so essentially it was free. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean FREE calories, bummer...........

This took me literally 5 minutes to assemble, 2 1/4 hours to cook and it was done. The only thing is that it does not create very large serving pieces and the cake portion was very thin. Flavor was delicious and very "hot fudge" like which surprised me from the assembly portion. My boys loved it and gobbled it up in a second.

1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 tsp. baking powder
1/3 cup milk
1 tbsp. vegetable oil
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup smooth peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
3 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup boiling water
vanilla ice cream

Combine flour, 1/4 cup sugar, and baking powder. Add milk, oil and vanilla. Mix until smooth. Stir in peanut butter. Mix till smooth. Pour into slow cooker, spread evenly over bottom.
Mix together 1/2 sugar and cocoa powder. Gradually stir in boiling water. Pour mixture over batter in slow cooker. Do not stir. (In order to not create a hole in the batter on the bottom of the slow cooker, I poured the hot water slowly on the wall of the slow cooker in a complete circle so it evenly covered the top of the cake batter.)
Cover and cook on HIGH 2-3 hours or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Serve warm with ice cream.

The neat thing is that the sugar and cocoa and boiling water mixture really did turn into hot fudge. Fun transformation. Easy and simple. I'd like the cake portion to be a little thicker, I wonder how it would turn out if the batter was doubled??? Maybe I'll try it some time.

Bon' Appetit'