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Puddle Pudding

Chocolatey, gooey and messy. But it's quick to make. Dollop it into a bowl. Dress it up with a drizzle of double cream, a sprinkle of sieved icing sugar and a strawberry, and your friends and family will think you've taken ages to prepare them a fancy dessert.

Serves 4 to 6

Ingredients

2 Medium eggs
75g (3oz) Dark Chocolate, 50% cocoa solids
2 teaspoons instant coffee granules
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
3 tablespoons boiling water
100g (4oz) butter, at room temperature
100g (4oz) soft light brown sugar
100g (4oz) self-raising flour

Sauce

25g (1oz) cocoa powder
1 tablespoon boiling water
300ml (10 fl oz) milk
100g (4oz) soft light brown sugar

This is an unusual pudding as the cake mixture goes on the bottom and the cocoa flavoured milk sits on top. However, once it is baked the cocoa flavoured milk ends up at the bottom of the sponge as a  thick chocolate custard.

  1.  Look out a 1.4 litre (2pt) oval ovenproof baking dish and grease well. Set the oven to 150C, 300F, Gas mark 1.
  2. Crack the eggs into the mug and beat lightly. Chop the chocolate into rough chunks. 
  3. Spoon the coffee granules, cocoa powder and water into a mug and stir well to mix.
  4. Put the butter and sugar into a mixing bowl and beat until light and creamy. Beat in the eggs, a little at a time, to make a light fluffy mixture.
  5. Beat in the cocoa mixture. Put a sieve over the bowl, add the flour, sift then fold in with a metal spoon. Fold in the chocolate. Spoon the mixture into the prepared dish and level the top.
  6. To make the sauce: spoon the cocoa powder into a measuring jug and add the water. Stir well to dissolve the cocoa powder. Add the milk and sugar and whisk well to mix. Pour over the pudding mixture.
  7. Bake for forty minutes or until the centre is just set. Leave to stand for five minutes. Serve hot.  
Tip
If the pudding is still a bit soft in the middle, the sauce will be thin when you cut into the pudding. However, if you overcook the pudding so that it is firm in the centre and shrinking away from the side of the dish, the sauce will disappear. The centre should spring back when you press it lightly with your fingertips. 

Enjoy  😊
 





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