Chocolate Pouding Chômeur with Salted Caramel Sauce

Makes 1-6" cake

OVEN TEMPERATURE

350°F - 400°F

cook time

30 minutes

ingredients

Salted Caramel Sauce:
150g (3/4 cup) brown sugar
180g (3/4 cup) water
42g (3 TBSPs) butter
2g (1/2 tsp) fine sea salt
4g cornstarch dissolved in 1 TBSP water

Cake batter:
100g (generous 3/4 cup) all-purpose flour
18g (3 TBSPs) dutch-process unsweetened cocoa powder
4g baking powder
2g (1/2 tsp) salt
28g (2 TBSPs) butter
1 egg
1 tsp instant coffee
40g dark chocolate chips
90g (3/8 cup) boiling water
1 tsp vanilla extract
75g (1/4 c + 2 TBSPs) granulated sugar

directions

Make the caramel sauce:

Combine the brown sugar, water, butter, and sea salt in a saucepan over medium heat and mix well. Let mixture simmer and thicken slightly. Add the cornstarch and water slurry and combine. Take off heat and let cool completely.

For the cake:

In a medium bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. In another clean bowl, add the butter, instant coffee, and chocolate chips. Pour boiling water and let sit for a minute, then stir until smooth. Add the vanilla extract and sugar and mix until well combined.

Mix the flour mixture into the liquids and stir until just combined. Pour batter into a greased 6” cast iron pan or high-temperature cooking vessel of choice. Then pour cooled caramel sauce over cake batter.

Cook in your Cru oven at about 350°F for 30 minutes, rotating every 5 minutes. We put our cake pan into an 8” cast iron skillet to avoid messes from caramel overflow.