CHOCOLATE COBBLER
Also known as Chocolate Pudding Cake, this old-fashioned dessert creates a rich chocolate cake on top and a warm fudge pudding underneath.
❤️WHY YOU WILL LOVE CHOCOLATE COBBLER
If you love chocolate and are a fan of cobbler, this is the dessert for you! It’s easy to make, comes together quickly, and is delicious. It’s made in an 8X8, so it’s perfect for a small gathering or when you just want something sweet. You can add ice cream, chocolate syrup, and a cherry, and it’s like a hot fudge cake! Some people call this a Chocolate Pudding Cake, but either way.. it’s a HIT!
This cobbler is made a little differently; you use hot water, but that’s an old-fashioned way, and it’s delicious. We make our Cinnamon Pecan Cobbler the same way and it has wonderful reviews.
Cobbler Brings Back Memories…
When we were small kids and growing up on the farm, Mom would take us on a “safari” to go pick blackberries and we would make a delicious cobbler. Such simple times that created some of our best memories. Preserving traditions and creating a simple life are things we strive for in every issue of Front Porch Life Magazine. Read more here.
SWAPS
We make this with evaporated milk, but you can use regular milk. We love this cobbler topped with ice cream but you can always use whipped cream.
WHAT DOES THE HOT WATER DO?
It blooms the cocoa powder, which gives this cobbler a really deep chocolate flavor. It is creates the chocolate sauce that makes this cobbler so good! That will sink to the bottom of the dish and it’s so good with the ice cream!
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Chocolate Cobbler
Ingredients
Cake:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup white granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons 100% pure cocoa
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk can use regular milk
- 2 tablespoons olive oil can use any cooking oil
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
Topping:
- 1/4 cup 100% pure cocoa
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 3/4 cups hot water
Instructions
- Whisk together flour, white sugar, 3 tablespoons cocoa plus the baking powder in a bowl. Add milk, oil and vanilla extract. Mix with a spoon until all ingredients are wet. Batter will be thick.
- Spread in the bottom of an 8 x 8 or 9 x 9 baking dish.
- In a bowl whisk together the 1/4 cup cocoa and the brown sugar. Sprinkle over the batter in the baking dish.
- Pour the hot water on top and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 35 to 40 minutes.
- Serve warm with ice cream on top.
- Makes about 9 servings
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This was delicious. Not too sweet and easy to make. Had it with malted vanilla ice cream. Perfection!
YAY! I am so glad you enjoyed this one! We love it too!
I started making this at age 12. I found it my mom’s red cookbook. Everyone loved it! Fast forward to me having kids. I made it at least once every few months. I always had a big bowl of homemade sweetened whip cream. Fast forward again. I made this when visiting my oldest. My two granddaughters absolutely loved it! My daughter whipped the big bowl of sweetened whip cream!!
What wonderful traditions you have created! Thank you for sharing!
I did add 1 tea of vanilla extract to cake mixture as someone mentioned. Classic Pudding Puddle! Awesome ‘Ole Time’ recipe. Don’t neglect the ice cream!
I know this post is old as are the last comments. Bit is this also good the next day? Is it best to eat it fresh? I want to make it a few hours ahead of serving time, I don’t want the gooey part to dry up into the Cake or something like that. Thanks
You may have to heat a piece in the microwave a little bit if you want the chocolate kind of runny but I have had it the next day and thought it was fine, Saura.
How do I tell when chocolate pudding cake is done? Live on coast and baking time has to be
adjusted.
It should have be like a cake but with some gooey parts, too. that are like pudding.
To make this in a 9×13 pan, would you just double the ingredients? thankyou.
You can try it that way, Denise. I have not tried doubling this recipe.
Made this yesterday. Hard to believe it is so good but did not check for calories in it. Had never heard of anything like this and I am a old.
I love this recipe, but wonder if you can make it without the brown sugar? I’ve had a wonderful dessert in a restaurant lately that is very similar, but the color is all dark chocolatey looking, not bicolored. Any thoughts?
I always make it like the recipe says. I can’t advise you, Dee.
I thought it sounded too easy to turn out this good fabulously yummy thank you
I remember making this in high school Home EC class and have made it for my family many times. And I am 67 years old so it’s been around a LONG time! Still a favorite and so easy to make. Love your recipes!
Comment posted on the Facebook page says the following: Christina Williams: I made this tonight…it was amazing!!! My family loved it!!! And easy too.
this looks sooo good, I will be trying this one Thanks!
My mom used to buy this in a boxed cake mix when I was growing up (not sure who made it), but this was always my favorite. Then they stopped making it. I was so excited to find this recipe … like a walk down memory lane. And it’s so quick and easy!!! I always have everything in my kitchen I need to make it, and it’s so much better than the commercial mixes. Thanks! 🙂
Anita, I remember it when I was little too. I loved the lemon.
My mom made this a lot while I was growing up (I’m 56) it is still my favorite! It’s inexpensive and easy!
Do you grease the baking dish?
I don’t, but you can spray it if you want to with cooking spray.
I remember this recipe was a box cake in lemon and chocolate back in the 60ies,, lol lol yours is the best
Thank you so much, Leslie
Thank you for such a kind comment!
I have been making this recipe for many years. It is one of my Mom’s old recipes. She called it “Devil’s Float.” It is delicious. Thanks for your blog, I love it.
Can’t wait to try it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you ever heard of Death by Chocolate? Well this is the way to go!! I just made this cake and it was completely gone in 15 minutes. No one waited for it to cool down! Next time I make it I’ll have the vanilla ice cream on hand. Thanks for an awesome sweet!!
Making this today can’t wait to eat it my house smells yummy right now !
I have made all of these recipes while raising my 3 kids and all of their friends, The chocolate pudding cake really brings it home . Thank you for the great site.
This looks absolutely SINFUL! I know a man that will make himself sick on this one…like it that it a smaller pan size…this size fits perfectly in my countertop oven…refuse to use big oven here in SW FL…but I wil make this in the next day or two and invite friends over who are chocolate lovers as well!!! It will be a big hit…thanks for recipe!
This is too delicious. In England where I am from this dessert was called Pudding in a Puddle. When I think of this dessert this name always comes to mind..I havent made it in a long time, but i plan to very soon. Thank you, Southern Lady.
Oh my this looks amazing!!!!! Going to make this in the very near future! You have some wonderful recipes, I just love your website!
Made this last night. It is AWESOME!! I didn’t find it bitter at all, and mine looks just like the picture (so rare for me:)
Thank you Tamara! So happy you enjoyed this recipe. I make it all the time, too, and never had a problem with it being bitter. I have served it for years and never have any left. Thanks for trying my recipes and being a part of the site.
yummy i am thinking a few raspberries mixed in with the batter would be yummy too
Can’t wait to make this! Looks fantastic
Yummy! I love this stuff! A lady at my church fixes this for every covered dish dinner we have and it’s always delicious! 🙂
Should this be sweetened cocoa? I used unsweetened and it was so bitter, no one would eat it.
Oh my goodness! I just turned my oven off. Going to turn it back on NOW. Happy National Chocolate Day!
Have it in the oven now..told my husband that there COULDN’T be any calories in it as it’s national chocolate cake day! lol
I’m diabetic. Had just looked at my cookboods for diabetics to find something chocolate. Found this cake with a little variation. Think I’ll go make one. Sounds so easy and good.
Oh my goodness, this looks so yummy! I will be craving chocolate all day now. 😉
Good Lord! I think I’m in love! ; ) Now, I’ve got two new dessert recipes of yours to try!!!
Itried to comment and don’t think it went through but just in case it didn’t, I was just saying I like your recipes and will visit often I found you via The Blind Pig And Acorn.. I read where you said you like poetry and would like to invite you to my blog. http://countrysidepoet.blogspot.com Susie Swanson
Will be by to check it out. Thanks for visiting!
YUMMY! I’ve had it before-but never made the cake myself-but I need to soon : )
This is delicious. We call it chocolate cobbler. It is a hit every time I make it.
so glad you posted this!! I used to make this when our 5 children were home….I think it’s time I revisited this recipe. It is soooo good, especially served while it’s warm with vanilla ice cream….yuuummmmm!!
I’m with you on that. My wife would call that a company cake, so good you have to send some home with company so you don’t eat it all. Looks great with ice cream!
Of all the yummy things my mom baked when I was growing up, this is at the top of the list. She’s always laugh & remark about how easy & simple it was to make 🙂
Can this be made a day ahead and still remain moist?
Yes, it should Peggy.