Hot Fudge Sundae Cake

1 cup flour
¾ cup sugar
2 TBSP Hershey’s cocoa
2 tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp salt

½ cup milk
2 TBSP oil
1 tsp. vanilla

¼ cup Hershey’s cocoa
1 cup brown sugar

1 ¾ cup hottest tap water

Heat oven to 350. In an ungreased baking dish (9x9x2) stir together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Mix in milk, oil, and vanilla with a fork until smooth. Spread evenly in a dish. Sprinkle with 1 cup brown sugar and ¼ cup cocoa. Pour hot tap water over batter. Bake 40 minutes. DO NOT OVERBAKE. Let stand 15 min. Cake makes its own sauce. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream.

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This is my husbands favorite treat- he requests it each year for his birthday. It's super easy with almost zero clean up as it is mixed in the same dish it is baked in.

For a dairy free option, water or rice milk may be substituted for the milk.