Easy chocolate pudding
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Including 1hr 15mins steaming
- Easy
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- 100g butter or margarine, plus extra for the bowl
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 100g dark muscovado sugar
- 150ml/¼ pint milk
- 1 egg (large or medium)
- 1 heaped tbsp cocoa powder
- 225g self-raising flour, minus 1 heaped tbsp
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
For the sauce
- 4 tbsp milk
- 4 tbsp cream
- 1 tbsp golden syrup
- 100g good-quality dark chocolate
Method
- STEP 1
Butter the inside of a 1.2 litre pudding bowl and line the base with a disc of buttered greaseproof paper.
- STEP 2
Melt the butter, syrup and sugar in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and stir in the milk and egg. Add the cocoa to the flour, then tip this mixture into the pan with the cinnamon and soda.
- STEP 3
Pour the mixture into the pudding bowl, cover tightly with foil and steam for 11⁄4 hours. Just before the end, heat the sauce ingredients until melted, stirring all the time.
- STEP 4
Turn the pudding out (run a knife around the inside of the bowl if necessary) and discard the paper disc. Pour the sauce over the top and serve immediately.
