Frances L. Lewis

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 4-3-2-1  Kilauea Crater cake a.k.a. Chocolate Pudding Cake

Preheat your oven to 350°. We’re baking cake here, not producing  molten lava. 
 This is a blow-by-blow to make your own lava cake. Since it  is  lava cake,  no one’s has to look like Martha S’s, because this is your own creation!

Combine these four ingredients and ¼ teaspoon salt in 1-9 inch pan.

Mix 1 cup all-purpose flour, ¾ c. sugar, 2 Tablespoon cocoa powder (unsweetened) 2 teaspoon baking powder. 
Combine these three ingredients and add to dry mix, mixing thoroughly. Mix in  ½ c. milk, 2 T. oil and 1 t. vanilla.
 Spread evenly in pan (This stuff will look like brown paste! It has the consistency of Play-doh.)Optional : If you want to add ¼ c. coconut, that will be your plants your lava picked up as it traveled in your oven.
 Mix these two ingredients and sprinkle over paste.Mix 3/4 c. 

packed brown sugar and ¼ c. cocoa powder (unsweetened). 
Sprinkle over brown paste. (It does looks like dirt, does it not?)

  Don’t forget to pour 1 ½ c. boiling water over batter. Don’t mix in, just leave it alone. 

My "lava" dirt without hot water-Add it. 

Bake at 350° F (175 °) for 40 minutes.  Let rest for 15 minutes.  (See rest on next page.)