Late night chocolate craving...

leads to me searching through chowhound and finding Isa from theppk's recipe for chocolate pudding cake only a little different from their website. I think this is from their published book, but I made it on a whim with some minor adjustments because I ran out of cocoa powder and only had Ghiradelli hot cocoa mix. Close enough. It turned out pretty good warm and outstanding cold. It was also good scraping the bits a couple days later with some peanut butter.

Hot Cocoa Pudding Cake:

(A)
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tbs baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cups sugar divided (but the real recipe calls for 1 cup, but since the hot cocoa mix has sugar, I subtracted some)
1 cup hot cocoa mix (divided)

(B)
1/2 cup soy/almond milk
2 tsp vanilla extract

(C)
1/2 cup boiling water
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup rum

Boil water. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease pan and line with parchment paper. Mix dry ingredients (A) with 1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup hot cocoa mix. Add (B) to (A). Pour mixture into pan. Add (C) on top. Place pan on larger cookie sheet and bake for 30 to 35 minutes.

It comes out like cake and pudding mixed up altogether. It's yummy and quick!