Cyndi Allison
Ingredients:
1 box of chocolate fudge cake mix – 15.25 ounces
½ cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 ¼ cup fresh brewed coffee still warm but not hot (or can use water)
1 box instant chocolate pudding mix – 3.9 ounces
2 cups milk
12 ounce bag semi sweet chocolate chips
Directions:
1. Mix together the cake mix with oil and eggs. Mix a couple of minutes and slowly add in the
coffee. Don’t overmix here, or the cake will be tough. So, it’s fine to have some lumps.
2. Mix together the pudding mix and milk in another bowl and let it sit to thicken up a bit. This
does not take long.
3. Spray your larger size crock pot with non stick spray and then pour in the cake mix. Shake the
pot lightly so that it evens out.
4. Put the pudding mix on top of the cake mix. Use a big spoon and just put dallops of the pudding
around on top of the cake batter.
5. Sprinkle the chocolate chips around on top of the pudding/cake batter.
6. Cover and cook for three hours on high. Do not lift up the lid while cake is cooking.
Serve hot plain or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
I always like to say a little about the recipes I put here on Half Fast Cook. These are family favorites or ones I try out and really like for various reasons.
Lava Java Cake was made for a pot luck at the west branch of Rowan Public Library. All these years, we never had a library. Now we do. YAY!
The librarians at west branch are really phenomenal. They help with check out ideas and plan up programs and are just all 'round great. One ongoing program that I especially like is the pot luck that Lyndsey puts together. Neighbors sign up with recipes to bring, and Lyndsey collects and prints up recipe booklets with all the recipes.
This month (Feb 2023) the theme was crock pot. I thought about Taco Soup (which I need to post here), but I thought someone else might bring that one. It is a popular crock pot meal in the area. Then, I thought about a dessert. I'm not supposed to have sugar (or not much), so I don't make sweets often now. With a pot luck, I could make the dish, and then most of it would be eaten (assuming it tasted decent).
I thought about things I make in a crock pot, and I could not think of a dessert that I've made. I'm sure I have made some, but they must not have been memorable. So, I dug in online and with my cookbooks and found several cakes that sounded interesting. The lava cakes seemed perfect for a crock pot, so I honed in on those. I had to flip a coin between chocolate and chocolate/cherry. Since I made Cherry Yum Yum for a pot luck earlier, I thought chocolate would be a good pick.
I decided to use coffee in place of the water in the cake part of the recipe. I bought some coffee pods that must have been designed to wake the dead - way too strong for me. I pulled one of those out and brewed a cup for the cake and mixed that in with the mix, oil, and eggs.
One thing I know for sure is that my house smelled amazing. I could even smell coffee and chocolate out in the driveway. I only hoped the cake would be as good as the smell.
On my way to the pot luck, I swung by the Food Lion (which is new in town) and got Cool Whip. I kind of wish I had planned ahead and whipped my own cream, but the Cool Whip was fast and easy, and it was good on the cake.
The best I can describe Lava Java Cake (a name I just made up) is ooey-gooey - as a lava cake should be. The batter set up nice and was moist, and the pudding made little puddles of chocolatey goodness all through the cake. Think of the center of a chocolate cream doughnut - something like that.
Lava Java Cake is at its very best when hot - very decadent. The Cool Whip just melts and adds that nice dairy extra to the cake. It's also good warmed up in the microwave and even just room temp or cold.
I had to add Lava Java Cake here with my favorites, and I am sure I will make it again when I'm feeding a group. It's super easy to make and comes out perfect at three hours at high with no lifting the crock pot lid.
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