Individual Hot Fudge Pudding Cakes

Name: Individual Hot Fudge Pudding Cakes
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons, instant coffee; 1 1/2 cups, water; 2/3 cup, Dutch-processed cocoa powder (2 1/2 ounces/71 grams); 1/3 cup, brown sugar (packed, 1 3/4 ounce/50 grams); 1 cup, granulated sugar (7 ounces/198 grams); 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 2 ounces (57 grams), semisweet chocolate or bittersweet chocolate, chopped; 3/4 cup, unbleached all-purpose flour (3 3/4 ounce/106 grams); 2 teaspoons, baking powder; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 1/3 cup, whole milk; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1 , large egg yolk

Desserts or Baked Goods
Chocolate
Cakes

Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2002, America's Test Kitchen TV

Here's how to make a homey, no-fuss chocolate cake with hot fudge sauce—baked together in one dish.

SERVES 8

TIME 1¼ hours

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