I looked back through the first few recipes I’ve posted and I realized that I needed something HEALTHY. Something that wouldn’t make you all fat. Something that had at least some nutritional value. And then I laughed and I got out the ingredients for chocolate cobbler.
I’m sorry. Please forgive me.
This chocolate cobbler is definitely what I would call comfort food. It’s fast. It’s warm and melty. And it’s chocolate. It is not the most fancy desert, nor is it the most delicious. That’s right. I admitted that it isn’t the most delicious thing to have ever passed my lips. But, it is good. I’d even go as far as VERY, VERY GOOD when you serve it warm with vanilla ice cream.
The best part about this desert, though, is that it’s the perfect week night chocolate treat when you just don’t have time to fuss around with dinner, but you really want that sweet something at the end of your meal. This? Fits the bill perfectly. And your kids will love it.
Enough talking. Let’s make a chocolate cobbler.
First things first, you’re going to need butter, self rising flour (if you don’t have self-rising flour you can make your own by adding 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder and 1/2 tsp. salt to one cup all purpose flour), white sugar, cocoa powder, instant coffee, milk, vanilla, brown sugar and water. That’s it! You don’t even need an egg! If that isn’t the most basic list of ingredients around, I don’t know what is.
Now, the first thing you want to do is grab an 8×8 baking dish and plop 6 tablespoons of butter right in it. Don’t bother cutting it up. Just peel the wrapper off your butter and stick it in your dish.
And then take a picture, because butter…mm, butter. It’s just good. And beautiful. And I firmly believe that if everyone ate a stick of butter every day the world be a better place. Also, everyone would be fat as the dickens. (I do not know what a dickens is. Are dickens fat? Can someone please get back to me on this?)
Alright, now pop that butter in to your pre-heated 350 degree oven. We’re gonna let it melt while we mix up the rest of the goods.
Mm, mm. Would ya just look at that yummy looking cocoa? It’s Nestle brand. I really hope to one day find a store in my area that sells the fancy cocoa. But for this recipe, I think Nestle will work just fine. Just fine, indeed.
Now, I’ve dumped in 1 cup of self rising flour, 3/4 cup of white sugar, 2 tbsp. of cocoa powder and about 1 tsp. of instant coffee granules. Coffee really brings out the flavor of the chocolate. It’s goooood.
And, would you look at that? I stirred it all up.
To the dry ingredients, add 1/2 cup of milk and 1 tsp. of vanilla. Stir it all up, lick the spoon, take a deep breath and insist to yourself that it would wrong, JUST WRONG!, if you were to eat it all before putting it in the oven. Have another lick just to show yourself who’s the boss. And then go grab your phone book and look up the number of a local psychiatrist.
Now head over to the oven and get that dish full of yummy, delicious, melty butter. Careful not to stick your entire face in the dish. I know it looks yummy, but it’s hot.
Go ahead and dump your chocolate mixture right into that dish of melted butter. I know the chocolate is thick and pretty difficult to spread out evenly, but do your best. And, as you can see, my best wasn’t all that great. It looks like I just dumped the chocolate in one spot and called it a day. Don’t be like me. Or do. I don’t care.
Now, lets make the chocolate crumble for the top of this bad boy.
In a small bowl, dump in 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 1/4 cup of white sugar and 1/4 cup of cocoa powder. Mix it up. That was easy, huh?
Sprinkle the topping evenly all over the top of your chocolate/butter mixture.
Now, here’s the hard part. You need 1 1/2 cups of very hot water. I just poured tap water into my measuring cup and then microwaved it for a couple minutes. You don’t need boiling water, but you do need HOT water. And then, slowly, EVER SO SLOWLY, pour the hot water over the top of the cobbler.
Don’t go too fast. That would be bad. I’m not sure what would happen, but I can just about guarantee that you wouldn’t like it.
And, oh my, would you look at that? Chocolate soup. I like soup. I like chocolate. I’m going to enjoy this, aren’t I?
Pop it in your oven for about 30-35 minutes. You want it to still be a wee bit jiggly when you pull it out. Trust me. Jiggly is good when it comes to chocolate cobbler.
And there it is. Chocolate cobbler.
Oh, but you didn’t think I was going to just walk away and leave it sitting in that baking dish did you? Oh, heavens no.
First, I put it on a plate.
And then?
I ate it.
Ingredients
- 6 tbsp. butter
- 1 cup self rising flour
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 2 tbsp. cocoa powder
- 1 tsp. instant coffee
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 cups hot water
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Put 6 tbsp. butter in an 8x8 baking dish and allow to melt in the oven.
- Mix together dry ingredients. Pour in milk and vanilla.
- When butter has melted, pour the chocolate mixture on top of the butter. Try to pour it as evenly across the dish as you can, because you won't be able to spread it once it's in the dish.
- Mix together the dry ingredients. Sprinkle over the top of the chocolate cobbler.
- Slowly, slowly, slowly pour the hot water over the entire thing.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes until the top has hardened up, but the cobbler is still a bit jiggly in the middle.
- Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
I’m number ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahem. Do you know how intimidated I am that you even have a cooking blog? If I had one it would just list take out numbers. But I love that you have step by step pictures for losers like me.
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OH. My. Goodness. I think I have all of those ingredients.
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Yum!! Sounds awesome! Damn. You are an awesome photographer and a cook. You probably rock in bed too. I suck.
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Oh man!! I think I just gained 10 pounds looking at the pictures. I feel my butt getting fatter and fatter as I type.
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Man, I hate to cook.
But you sure make it look fun…
I do like to eat it though….
Mayve I will try it out afterall!!
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YEAH!!!! Glad you finally got the name (great one, btw) and got this going. I’ve been waiting, like, FOREVER! LOL
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How are you NOT 600 pounds? All of your food looks so yummy….hey, let me ask, are you more of a baking person or do you cook too? For example, can you whip out a bacon and eggs breakfast like nothing, or would you rather bake a little quiche? Wait, I just figured it out. You’ve drawn a huge insurance policy on Cleatus, and now you’re trying to fatten him up and kill him slowly by clogging his arteries. Am I close?
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OMG, YUM!!! We have no milk, and there is much snow on the ground so I can’t go to the store, but i would totally make that if I could. You would really need milk to eat it, though!
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LOVE it over here!
This recipe looks soooooo yummy
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Ooooohhhh. That looks good.
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Look at you with your big-time cooking blog with the phenomenal pictures! Yay, you!
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I think it’s time to come out of my cooking hibernation!
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A new cooking blog – cool!!!
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Oh, that looks absolutely delectable! I’m a huge fan of dessert recipes, so keep that up.
Oh, and if you can find the perfect oatmeal raisin cookie recipe, please, please DO share. I’ve been looking for ages without success.
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I didn’t know there was such a thing as chocolate cobbler! I will have to make this!
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Wow – Another cooking blog to add to my reader! I’l never get another lick of work done as long as I live!
This cobbler looks pretty darn amazing!!!
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i just love these this stuff…
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You are my hero! Chocolate cobbler-those two words are music to my ears!
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“take a picture, because butter…mm, butter. It’s just good. And beautiful. And I firmly believe that if everyone ate a stick of butter every day the world be a better place.”
Truer words, never ever spoken. What a wonderful excuse to break out the fat pants. Thanks!
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“everyone would be fat as the dickens.(I do not know what a dickens is. Are dickens fat? Can someone please get back to me on this?)”
I am a Dickens….we’re not that fat, just slightly overweight. We do exercise on a regular basis, though.
We would, however, be much much fatter if I actually made this recipe instead of just drooling over it on my computer screen….
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You are so stinkin’ cute. Yum.
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Man. You had me at the stick of butter.
Your food pictures are way better than mine. Looks so yummy. I will definitely be making this.
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Can’t wait to make this when my kids get home tomorrow. I’m all about chocolate…and butter (suspect unknown familial relation to Julia Child). So glad to have found you! (Thanks Kimberly)
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I made this a couple of weeks ago, and it was SOOOOOOOO good!!! My boyfriend & I adored it and let’s just say it didn’t last very long.
And very much satisfied the chocoholic in me. The instructions seemed improbable that it would work, but sometimes that yields the yummiest results.
Two enthusiastic thumbs WAY UP for this fantastic recipe!
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I have made this twice in the past week or so. It is delicious. I am delirious with the simplicity. My husband… well, he loves chocolate. He’ll be having some for breakfast. Chocolate cobbler. It doesn’t make up for having a headache, but it’s close enough.
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I can vouch for the yumminess of this delightful and simple dessert because I have been eating it all my life. Mama’s red plaid BH&G cookbook called it “Brownie Pudding,” and you’ve actually improved it by adding that gorgeous butter! It does work fine with vegetable oil (in a pinch), but it lacks the sublime decadence of real butter. She never boiled the water, either, but I usually do because the recipe says to (I’m just like that) so I’m glad to see a “real” recipe in print that says it’s okay to just use HOT. If you have ‘em, throw some nut in and it’s got a nice crunch. Makes even slightly past-its-prime vanilla ice cream seem like something fabulous.
By the way, this works with gluten-free flour, too!
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I tried this last night (ok my partner did!) I was a bit concerned about how mush butter was in it… but it tasted great! And he put whipped cream on it too…!
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Hey… I’m from New Zealand, and we call this type of pudding a chocolate self-saucing pudding. It’s a favourite of my children and fantastic to have on a cold winter’s night! Although, we don’t melt the butter as you do. It’s softened and creamed with sugar, then an egg added (it’s like chocolate cake).
A tip, for next time if you like, is to use a wide spoon (metal serving spoon is good) and pour the hot sauce over it, as it spreads out evenly. I forgot once, and boy, there was a lovely hole in the middle of teh pudding! Still, it got eaten….
Yum. May make it for pud tomorrow night.
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(I “stumbled” onto this… and had to comment!)
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DAMN YOU KARLY! I just came over here to see what’s new, what’s old, then I saw this recipe. And I couldn’t wait for the morning to make it, I made it late in the night. I called it late night chocolate experiment. It worked. It worked so well that I ate half of the pan immediately and I managed to burn my tongue. I’ll go now and eat the remaining half.
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Oh my. This is the kind of dish I wouldn’t dare make by myself. I’d eat the entire thing and wish I had more, lol.
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Oh my goodness. This stuff is awesome! You’re right, it went PERFECTLY with some vanilla ice cream. What a great dessert! My roommates and I thank you!
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I made this this afternoon. Results were not as anticipated. I baked it for 35 minutes and it was still soupy. We decided to eat it anyway spooned over ice cream. It was ok, but I definitely got my hopes up for nothing on this one. I probably won’t make it again. =\
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you are my new best friend.
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Just made this for the first time at my in-laws house. Everyone who has tasted has tried to keep the pan away from the others. In a group that loves sweets, this is a definite winner!
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Made this today…amazing! Thanks for sharing this!!!!! Only recommendation I have for the future, is I would sift all the dry ingredients, but will definitely make this again…and again…and again………
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