Bugger... knew I should have been more organised....

[poppiesinaline]

Prepared lovely chicken dish for tonight and now have thought....

AH!!! PUDDING!!!!!

DRATS!!!!!!!

Any ideas anyone???

Got no chocolate in the cupboard... have got cocoa powder and drinking chocolate...

got fruit

fruit salad
or if you have eggs, flour pancakes and brandy orange sauce

Fruit with hot chocolate dipping sauce?

chocolate brownies or cookies with ice cream?

Have you eggs and sugar? You could make meringue nests and fill them with fruit, or make fruit salad with bits of meringue in them

Magic Chocolate Pudding - it's that one that meakes its own sauce and my emergency standby as it only uses cupboard stuff:

3oz SR
1 1/2 oz marg or butter
4 level tbsp drinking choc
5tbsp milk
drop vanilla extract if you have it

Sift flour & choc. Add butter cut into small bits and sugar. Stir in milk and vanilla. Pour into greased dish.
Sprinkle over 2oz brown sugar and 2 level tbsp drinking choc, pour over 1/2pt boiling water.
Gas 4 35min.

Mrs Badger - that is perfect.... thanks but am little confused....

3oz SR
1 1/2 oz marg or butter
4 level tbsp drinking choc
5tbsp milk
drop vanilla extract if you have it

Add butter cut into small bits and sugar. (caster sugar?? how much?)

Stir in milk (cold??) and vanilla. Pour into greased dish.

And the following bit completely loses me!! Can you explain the last bit again.... sorry I am a bit dense

Sprinkle over 2oz brown sugar and 2 level tbsp drinking choc, pour over 1/2pt boiling water.

And what size dish? Ta xx

bugger, missed 3oz sugar off the ingredient list, sorry

You make the cake mix (flour, choc, marg, sugar, cold milk, vanilla) and put it into the dish.
Then over the top of it you sprinkle a further 2oz brown sugar and a further 2tbsp of drinking choc.
Then you pour 1/2pint boiling water over it all.
Then you put it in the oven till the top is a risen spongey cake floating on a puddle of chocolate custard.

Sounds mad but it works!

I use a round pyrex casserole dish about 7in across and 3in deep.

Mmm, I might try that tonight! Sounds yummy!

If you don't have brown sugar, would it still work with normal/caster...?

WOW!! Thanks Mrs Badger.

Thanks to everyone else too.... fancied something chocolate and I have all Mrs Badger's recipe stuff in my cupboard...

DH is in for a rather delightful dessert... or a rather horrible failed one !!!! Well, one can at least give it a go

oh yes becca, any old sugar

once made it in a ski chalet with sugar sachets filched from cafes...

Hurrah! Chocolate pud for tea for me it is then...

(I'm going to give birth to a chocolate bar, eek!)

right, dinner is in oven... chocolate pudding lined up ready to go in at appropriate time.....

3 children bathed and ready for bed.....

He had better not be late

Was going to ask incredulously if you normally rustle up puddings on a Wed. night then remembered....

Ah,have a lovely evening!

No, he normally gets his dinner left on the side to heat up in the microwave and for pudding... me of course... if I'm still awake when he finally decides to get his body to bed!!!

Tonight though... he gets chocolate pudding and me what a lucky man!!

at the same time poppies?

I can multi-task doncha know!!!

taps fingers impatiently.....

he is on the borderline of being late

Glares at clock

oooooooooo just in the nic of time..

ahhhhh and he's brought pudding Krispy Kremes mmmmmmm my favourite

ah well.... now we have two puddings