Hot Fudge Pudding Cake * Prep Time: 10 mins * Total Time: 50 mins * Servings: 8 About This Recipe "Magically making its own fudge sauce this cake will become one of your favorite last-minute desserts. Serve it with ice cream for an extra special treat. Note: if you use a dutch process cocoa you will have a richer, darker result. TIP: some reviewers have recommended "baking" this in a crock pot on High for about 2 1/2 hours and then letting it cool slightly before serving. Thanks for the tip!" Ingredients 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar, divided 1 cup all-purpose flour 7 tablespoons cocoa, divided 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup milk 1/3 cup butter or 1/3 cup margarine, melted 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed 1 1/4 cups water, hot whipped topping Directions Heat oven to 350'F. In medium bowl stir together 3/4 cup granulated sugar, flour, 3 Tbs. cocoa, baking powder and salt. Blend in milk, butter and vanilla, beat until smooth. Pour batter into 8- or 9-inch square baking pan. In separate bowl, stir together remaining 1/2 cup granulated sugar, brown sugar and remaining 4 tablespoons cocoa; sprinkle mixture evenly over batter. Pour hot water over top; do not stir. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until center is almost set. Let stand 15 minutes; spoon into dessert dishes, spooning sauce from bottom of pan over top. Garnish with whipped topping. This is one of my favorite chocolate cakes. Sue

Good evening everyone. Ever since this post and reading everyone's helpful info I have been wanting to try this again. Make peace with my bundt pan. So I picked up a carrot cake mix (I think Betty Crocker)and found the below recipe to try. I freely admit to using the easiest, simplest recipe I could find in case I had pan removal failure again. Well I am happy to say the cake came out just as smooth as smooth can be! I used Pillsbury with flour spray and followed the advice of not spraying the pan until right before I added the batter. Cooked exactly forty minutes and after ten minutes the cake came out very nicely. I could not find Baker's Joy at our grocery but the Pillsbury seems comparable. Not sure if I'm going to drizzle some frosting or make a glaze. I was so nervous about it sticking and falling apart again I didn't plan that far ahead:) Again thank you everyone. Your input is really valuable to me. Kate Here is a link that might be useful: Carrot Cake IV

Hi Everyone, I'm still working on Jackie's center. Sorry it's taking me so long. February was a tough month for me as I was away from home more than I was home. I do want you all to know that I'm working on this project every moment that I can and I'll send it on to Sue as soon as possible. Speaking of Sue, her center arrived this weekend. Wow, you all did such a nice job. While I'm finishing Jackie's I'll be thinking of what I can add to Sue's. This has been so much fun. I'll be sorry when it is over. Lola

I moved a two-step ladder out of the g'houses to the sewing room, so that I can easily reach high up on the design wall to pin blocks. Moved a wheeled, swivel office chair out of my old office to put on one side of the quilting frame, so that I could slide easily from one work point to the next as the quilting progressed, and leave another chair on the other side of the frame. You can't believe how often you change positions at a floor frame. I use the compass from my old EKG interpretation class for making circles, the straight edges from my drafting supplies, old crocks with bails for things like straight pins, a sprayer from my house cleaning supplies for water when ironing, paper from a huge roll of butcher paper salvaged from my hubby who is a retired butcher I use for paper piecing, cone thread not related to quilting for basting. Knitting needles for stiletos to turn seams. Use the old pole lamp light brackets to hang sections of sashing and bindings as I make them. Washable markers I borrow from my 'kiddy fun supplies' for marking complex quilting lines. OMGosh.........everything can be multipurposed. My fav is an old stuffed bear my dd was going to throw away as a pin cushion at the ironing board. I keep another pin cushion also at the machine and when it fills up I just swap the nearly empty cushion from the ironing board, where I often pin blocks. Saves a lot of steps.