Q: I’m looking for a quick chocolate chip cake recipe
from 20-25 years ago. It makes a 9-inch-square cake, and was made
with melted chocolate squares and adding water alternately with the
dry ingredients. You sprinkled chocolate chips on the top. It was
very moist and was excellent warm with whipping cream on
it.
Ann Stiern, Kirkwood
A: The cake Stiern describes is similar to a
snack cake, which is made by combining the dry ingredients in a
baking pan and then adding the liquids, and to a pudding cake,
which forms layers of cake and chocolate sauce as it bakes.
I’m providing recipes for each. Neither is an exact match to
Stiern’s request, but each is simple to stir together to make a
quick dessert.
And now, another request:
“I’m looking for a recipe that my mother-in-law made at
holidays,” wrote Marilyn Libbra. “She called it the Italian name
for rice pudding, which I cannot remember. It was rice
pudding with almonds and whiskey in it and was baked in a
9-by-13-inch pan and served in small pieces. It had no raisins or
cinnamon in it.”
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