Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding
An easy, quick and delicious recipe for a warming chocolate dessert.
A family favourite and easy for a dinner party, this chocolate self saucing pudding recipe is simple and easy to prepare and absolutely delicious.
This chocolate self saucing pudding recipe is a quick and easy family favourite passed down from nanna to nanna. It is a delicious winter treat that can be served as an everyday dessert or for a dinner party. There is nothing quite so comforting as this body warming, delicious looking, special and yet so easy dessert. This chocolate self saucing pudding recipe only takes about 10 minutes to prepare and should satisfy everyone from children to grandparents, and from family to dinner guests.
Serving Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding
The chocolate self saucing pudding can be enjoyed with ice cream, cream or custard or just plain. If there are any leftovers (which is doubtful) they can be kept in the fridge and eaten cold or re-heated in a microwave.
Making Enough
Sometimes one pudding is not enough. If serving more than four people it is a good idea to double the recipe and make two chocolate self saucing puddings.
For A Dinner Party
For a dinner party individual chocolate self saucing puddings can be served instead of a temperamental and difficult soufflé or a fiddly steamed pudding. Simply make up the recipe and then divide into individual ramekins or similar dishes an excellent and easy dinner party dessert.
Ingredients For Making Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding
You will need an ovenproof casserole dish with a lid. Alternatively you can use a deep ovenproof dish covered in aluminium foil.
The Pudding
60g butter
½ cup milk
1 egg
1 cup self raising flour
1 dessertspoon cocoa
½ cup milk
½ vanilla essence
The Sauce
½ cup sugar
1 dessertspoon cocoa
11/2 cups boiling water
Method For Making Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding
Pre-heat oven to 180C / 360F
Making The Pudding
- Cream the butter and the sugar
- Mix in egg and vanilla
- Sift flour with cocoa
- Fold in the flour-cocoa and the milk into the mixture
- Pour into an ovenproof casserole dish and spread evenly.
Making The Sauce
- Mix together sugar and cocoa
- Sprinkle over the pudding mixture
- Pour boiling water over the mixture and topping
Cooking The Pudding
- Put the lid on the casserole dish
- Bake for approximately 45mins
The End Result and Serving
The pudding will cook and rise to the surface and develop a nice brown and slightly crisp surface. The sauce will thicken in the base of the casserole dish. The chocolate self saucing pudding is best served straight from the casserole dish – be careful it is very hot. With the addition of a little ice cream, whipped cream, or for an even richer winter dessert custard, you have the perfect heart warming dessert.
