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Hot Fudge Pudding Cake Recipe

By Stefanie

April 11, 2013

One of my most favorite desserts is Hot Fudge Pudding Cake! This is a very tasty dessert, but it is also a very tricky dessert. This dessert starts off with the cake on the bottom and the pudding mixture on the top, but after baking it switches places! Very tricky! My favorite recipe for this super yummy dessert is from the Hershey’s 100th Anniversary Cook Book. This book is now 10 years old so you can get it cheap on Amazon.com!

Hot Fudge Pudding Cake

1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
7 tablespoons Hershey’s Cocoa, divided
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup melted butter
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 1/4 cups hot water
Whipped Topping (optional)

Heat over to 300 degrees F. In a bowl, stir together 3/4 cup granulated sugar, flour, 3 tablespoons cocoa, baking powder and salt. Stir in milk, butter and vanilla; beat until smooth. Pour batter into 8 or 9 inch square baking pan.

Stir together remaining 1/2 cup granulated sugar, brown sugar and remaining 4 tablespoons for cocoa; sprinkle mixture evenly over batter.

Pour water over top. DO NOT STIR!

Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until center is almost set. Cool 15 minutes; spoon into dessert dishes. Spoon sauce from bottom of pan over top of cake. Serve warm with whipped topping, if desired.

See what I mean? Magic, the pudding is now on the bottom! We don’t serve it with whipped topping, we just eat it warm. It is DELICIOUS!! Be sure to get your own copy to enjoy the amazing other desserts in this book! It also has the best brownies I’ve EVER had, some GREAT mint frosting and other incredible goodies! Enjoy!

About Stefanie

Stefanie is a stay at home blogging Mom of three. She writes for Making of a Mom. Connect with her at Google+

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Past Recipe Recurrence

By Johanna

April 26, 2012

Every once in a while, we each stumble across a great recipe that we promise to continue creating until perfection for countless days. However, as soon as a new treat comes along, we stick the old one into a box and rarely look back. A few weeks ago, I was reminded of a delicious recipe that returned to my life through a newspaper sidebar. My children remembered this delicious strawberry pretzel dessert and insisted that I make it again. Having not created this dish for several years, my family was impressed by the refreshing reminder of the memories it brought back.

We were introduced to this dessert by a dear friend who was incredibly talented. The recipe I found was not exactly the same, but the similarities allowed me to critique it to how we were used to it. The rush and perfect balance of salty and sweet that enters the mouth is a sensational experience.

Strawberry Pretzel Dessert

3 tbsp. sugar

2 cups Crushed pretzel

¾ cups melted butter

Mix and bake the above ingredients at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes.

1 (8oz.) package cream cheese

½ cup powdered sugar

1 carton of cool whip

2 cup miniature marshmallows

Mix the above ingredients and set aside.

1(6oz.) package of strawberry jello

Soften cream cheese, add powdered sugar and cool whip, and fold in marshmallows. Spread over cooled baked layer. Dissolve gelatin in water. Stir in strawberries. Chill until slightly thickened. Spoon over cream cheese layer. Refrigerate.

Angelique is a wife and mother of 4 children. She is also my sister-in-law! She is a WONDERFUL chef and we always look forward to her cooking at family gatherings…except when she shows up my Christmas Punch! A big THANK YOU to my niece, Brittany, for the awesome photos!

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Valentines Treat Roundup

By Stefanie

February 8, 2012

As we grow nearer to Valentine’s Day I get more and more excited to celebrate with my family. Last week I complied a list of fun craft ideas for Valentine’s Day. This week I thought it would be fun to compile a list of treats to make. You can take these to your child’s school, have at your own party, or simply make something special for your family to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Here we go:

I found this amazing website that had fantastic Valentine’s Day treats, so I couldn’t pick just one thing to highlight, so I chose two. Here is the first from Glorious Treats! These are beautifully decorated chocolate rolled cookies. Delish! I love the though and care that went into making each cookie adorable! My daughter would love this!

My second choice from Glorious Treats is their chocolate Valentine sandwich cookies. These are also super cute! The awesome thing about these is that the cookies are the same cookies from the above post, so you can make two completely different and darling treats with one recipe! You must check out this website because Glorious Treats really did have TONS of other cute ideas that looked very yummy!

Next on I found some mint Valentine’s suckers that are very cute individually wrapped. Who knew if you laid down some mini candy canes in the shape of a heart and poured melted chocolate in the middle you would wind up with a sucker? I never would have thought of this on my own. It makes me very grateful for pinterest! Thanks Pleasant Home for the awesome tutorial. In this same posts are some other great ideas, definitely check it out!

Can you feel the cavities forming yet? We’ll take a break from the sweets and give you a healthy Valentine treat (that I’m sure many a school teacher would appreciate you bringing in) are these delicious heart melon kabobs! So cute, so tasty and so good for you!

Now back to the sweet stuff! These next treats I saw, fell in love with, and am going to make them next week for my family. They are called brown sugar blondies. YES PLEASE! My mouth is watering like crazy as I add this treat to the list! These are so cute and so yummy. I love a good cookie, and when it is in bar form, even better!!

I have so many more treats I am going to continue this with part 2 on Friday!

About Stefanie

Stefanie is a stay at home blogging Mom of three. She writes for Making of a Mom. Connect with her at Google+

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