Good Goopy Easy Chocolate Dessert

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One of our readers, Mary, who lives in Costa Rica, just sent me this recipe. It sounds delicious and since both Laura and I are doing the chicken-without-a-head-running-around thing,  I am delighted to share this treasure with you!

Mary writes:

This recipe bakes into a cake topping over a fudgy chocolate sauce and is guaranteed to put pimples on a pool ball.  It’s great hot with ice cream or straight from the fridge though you may have to bake two to get some as far as the fridge.

This is a very forgiving recipe and doesn’t much care if you can find your measuring cups and spoons as long as you’re fairly close. (It doesn’t even care if you omit the egg as long as the liquid amount is about right, but the topping is cakier with the egg.)

Good Goopy Easy Chocolate Dessert 

Preheat oven to 350°   Grease or butter 8 or 9 inch square pan (or the approximate equivalent).

• 1 cup flour
• 1 heaping tsp baking powder
• 3 T. cocoa
• 1 t. salt
• 3 T. oil
• 2 t. vanilla
• 1egg plus enough milk to make 1/2 cup (or just 1/2 cup milk)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 4 T cocoa
• 1 1/2 cups water

Sift together the flour, 3 T. cocoa, baking powder and salt, stir in the sugar, add oil, milk, (egg) and vanilla. Blend till dry ingredients are eqully moist. No point dirtying your mixer; it only takes a moment. The consistency will resemble brownie batter. Spread it in the pan.

Mix the brown sugar and remaining 4 T. of cocoa together and sprinkle over batter. Pour on the water, that’s right, just pour it on; don’t boil it, don’t mix it, trust me.

Bake 30 minutes. (here comes the hard part)  Let it set up out of oven for at least 10 minutes.  (Stand out of way of family.)

Note: I can’t get regular brown sugar here and use half white sugar and half tapa dulce but it works in gringo recipes and there’s no reason brown sugar won’t work in this.

-Mary

Thanks, Mary! I can’t wait to try this recipe. It looks like the perfect recipe to try at the family cottage next month. I’m always looking for good, basic treats to make when I’m vacationing.

Barb

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