How to Make Hot Fudge Cake

How many times have you started craving a food that you just can’t get off your mind. I do it all the time. I’m a junk food fanatic, but I can’t afford to go out to get my favorite foods often. I found a way to get one of my favorite foods – hot fudge cake – any time I want it. I worked out a fast, simple recipe that is similar to my favorite restaurant’s version of this dessert. This recipe is easy to make, and you can freeze the cake in portion sizes that are easy to eat. I usually make it, and then have hot fudge cake to pull out of the freezer for the next month or two. This is a adult and child pleasing recipe.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Devil’s Food cake mix Ingredients to make cake 1 container vanilla icecream powdered sugar cocoa powder milk 1 stick butter or margarine whipped cream cherries

1. Get all of your ingredients together before you start.

2. Make the Devil’s Food cake following manufacturer’s directions. Cook the cake on two pans in thin layers. You want the cake to cook into one inch high cakes.

3. Allow the cake to cool for at least one hour before assembling the hot fudge cake.

4. Assemble the cake. Layer the cake – cake, ice cream, cake, and put it back in the freezer. Let it set up for about thirty minutes, and then take it out of the freezer. Cut the cake into individual serving sized pieces. Put the pieces into plastic, re-sealable containers, and put in the freezer.

5. Make the hot fudge sauce. You can buy ready-made sauce to use, but it doesn’t taste as good.
   Melt butter in a sauce pan, and stir three tablespoons of cocoa into the butter.
   Remove from heat, and add 2 cups of powdered sugar. Stir into the cocoa mixture.
   It will be very thick. Add a splash of milk at a time until it makes a thick gravy-like mixture. Cook for about fifteen minutes on medium or until it takes on a smooth, glossy texture. Set this off the eye, and allow it to cool.
   (Store excess hot fudge sauce in the refrigerator.)
   (Do not be tempted to dip your finger in to taste it. The sauce will be really hot, and will stick. I’ve gotten several bad burns tasting the sauce.)

6. Put the hot fudge cake together. Take out one cake serving from the freezer, put a generous portion of hot fudge sauce over the cake, top with whipped cream and a cherry.
   Serve immediately.

Tips & Warnings

• Fudge sauce can be stored for five to seven days in the refrigerator. I usually store mine in a glass canning jar.
• It is addictive!

Resources

• Sweet Hot Wings

[mvalora]

on 9/18/2009 Sounds like a delicious recipe for hot fudge cake!