Name: Butterscotch Pudding Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Cake:; 1/4 cup dark brown sugar; 1 1/4 cup flour; 2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; 7 tablespoons melted butter; 1 egg; 1/2 cup milk; 2 tablespoons maple syrup; Sauce; 2 cups of boiling water; 1 tablespoons cornstarch; 3/4 cup of dark brown sugar

The best of both worlds is this butterscotch cake when baked all in one pan, makes its own magic butterscotch pudding sauce!

This cake has a butterscotch cake layer and as it bakes and when you scoop out the cake it has a butterscotch warm saucy pudding that oozes out from the bottom.

It's just an amazing all-in-one cake dessert that any butterscotch lover will flip over.

With easy pantry ingredients, you can make this quickly any weeknight, just be prepared for it to be the most memorable dessert you've ever made, it's a conversation piece for sure on "how does it do that!"

Not to be compared to the magic cake recipes that make a built-in custard, this is much more like a thin pudding sauce, it's just amazing how it bakes like that and so easy.

As a child, mom made this for dad he was the butterscotch lover but we all became fans quickly, this is an old vintage recipe that through the generations, it remains a favorite.

Easy Step by Step

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a baking dish
place dark brown sugar and cornstarch in a bowl and set aside
mix the cake ingredients together and pour into the prepared pan
boil the water
sprinkle the sugar and cornstarch on the cake batter then pour the water on top
bake the cake for 40 minutes, it's so easy
serve this warm with ice cream, whipped cream or plain as is!

butterscotch sauce oozing out of warm cake

Ingredients Needed

dark brown sugar
flour
baking powder
melted butter
egg
milk
maple syrup or dark corn syrup
Sauce
cornstarch
dark brown sugar

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Tips

always preheat oven
the cake is best served warm
use the toothpick method in the center to make sure it's finished baking
recipe can be doubled
serve with vanilla ice cream
pan suggestions: 6 cup capacity and shape
for greasing use butter, cooking oil spray, or line with parchment paper
the sauce/pudding is under the cake when you scoop it out after baking
be very careful not to disturb the cake batter when pouring the boiling water on top try doing this from the side of the cake batter slowly

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Best of Both Worlds Butterscoth Cake

I don't think you can beat the fact that this cake makes its own butterscotch delicious sauce baked right in the bottom of the cake.

I was never quite sure why it was called buttercotch pudding cake, because although it exactly the same flavors again to me it's a delicious cake sauce.

May I just say, it's the best butterscotch cake you will ever sink your teeth in and the easiest vintage cake in my recipe collection!