Chocolate Cobbler

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour (or use all purpose flour, adding 2 tsp. baking powder and 1/2 tsp. salt)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2 cups water, boiling

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350. in a 9x13 glass baking dish, melt the two sticks of butter in the oven.
• 2 meanwhile in a bowl, mix together the 1 1/4 cups of sugar, flour, vanilla and milk. once the butter is melted pour the batter over the butter, but do not stir.
• 3 in a separate bowl mix the cocoa and remaining sugar together and sprinkle on top of batter. do not stir.
• 4 pour the 2 cups of boiling water on top of that (don't stir) and bake for 30-45 minutes. i bake mine until i have a nice golden brown crust. in my oven this usually takes about 35 minutes. serve warm. great with vanilla ice cream!