Hot Fudge Dessert

My mom made this dessert for us occasionally when we were growing up. She always baked it in a particular blue speckled baking dish. I don't ever remember her baking anything else in that dish--it was the hot fudge pudding dish, as far as I was concerned.

When I grew up and wanted to make the recipe for myself, it actually kind of threw me a little that I had to make it in a regular baking dish!

Although the recipe has hot fudge in the name, it was actually quite effortless to adapt to our less refined lifestyle. Consider pairing it with some homemade vanilla ice cream for a delicious dessert free of refined sugar and flour! Amy Green has a fabulous vanilla ice cream recipe in her cookbook, Simply Sugar and Gluten Free.

Hot Fudge Dessert

Ingredients:
1 cup white whole wheat flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. sea salt
1 and 3/4 cup coconut palm sugar, divided
2 Tbsp. + 1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup milk
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 and 3/4 cup hot water

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Blend flour, baking powder, salt, 3/4 cup coconut palm sugar, and 2 Tbsp. cocoa in a 3 quart casserole baking dish. Into this mixture, stir milk and oil. In a separate bowl, blend together the 1 cup coconut palm sugar and 1/4 cup cocoa. Sprinkle the sugar/cocoa blend over the batter. Pour the hot water over everything. Do not stir. Bake for 45 minutes. Serve warm.