OK, ham crisis over, now I need pudding suggestions

[ChubbyStuckForAFestiveNameBurd]

It's cold, DP is working outside and will be hungry and I've got a semblance of ham and yellow pea (lentils are another story) soup cooking. Oh, and a needy 4 moth old.

I'm thinking easy pudding.

Have crumble mix [heathen emoticon]. And blackcurrants in freezer, but only golden delish apples.

Have flour, marge, milk, eggs x 2, dark chocolate, cocoa, brown/white sugar, sultanas, spices etc.

Whaddya reckon?

Golden delic will do in a crumble - might have to cook them first to soften. Add blackcurrents, crumble mix, et voila.

or super easy choco gooey pudding ... basically you melt butter and choc, whisk eggs and sugar, combine together, fold in a miniscule amount of flour and bake

till it's cakey round the edge and gooey in the middle

could dig out the quantities if you fancy ...

[ears prick up]

Oooooh choc pud, I have recipe for this somewhere and it kind of makes its own sauce ..... [rummage]

You've got to feed him more than 4 moths!

Gooey spicy apple cake?

First it was sharks, now moths....

"Chocolate Jezebel"

95g dark choc
90g butter
45g flour
150g sugar
3 eggs* * oops I think you only have 2, but you could scale back, or just try it with 2, how wrong can it go!!?

melt choc and butter in microwave
whisk eggs and sugar, fold in flour
fold in melted choco mix

put in shallow tin / ceramic dish / whatever vessel

Bake for at 180 for 20 mins

Essential thing is - the middle should still be wobbly and all gloopy and gooey underneath.

I once assembled this in about 7 minutes, and that included having a 5 year old and 2 year old interfering in the process.

Also, if you're feeling posh you can do it in individual ramekins - aka Nigella choco hotpots - you may need to adjust the cooking time.

If you have some double cream to serve with - even better.

Jeezelouise, Pidge, where'dja get that? Even better than the Nigella microwave pudding because it's genuine storecupboard ingredients whereas hers uses cream.

Golden delicious should be fine in a crumble

Hi MI!!

It came on a birthday card from my mum (how well she knows her daughter).

It's most recent appearance in our house was because dd1 had homework to "do some weighing and measuring". What better excuse for a choco jezebel than that?

Plain or self-raising, or doesn't it matter?

I bet it doesn't matter. But I use plain.

S-R would probably just make it a bit puffier.

Honestly - I cannot recommend this pudding enough. It is truly great value in terms of effort the minimal effort you put in. In fact even by any standards, it is pretty darn fine.

I could use the retro hand-whisk wossname that always jams, too...

Ooh I've got a retro wossname too, only it's a bit melted where me mum once left it too near the gas.

I don't even use a proper whisk - at most a balloon whisk, but even a wooden spoon to combine the eggs and sugar is fine.

Gosh - I am beginning to have chocolate fantasies here.

Have dispatched dp to take the girls swimming (having been laid low all week with foul fluey-cold thing), but have just realised I'm supposed to be shoving mackerel in the oven for their supper and not drivelling on about chocolate recipes!!!!!

Pidge - I have printed your recipe off for use another day (possibly tomorrow ). I made a very similar but eggless thing and am just digesting now [belch] ... but my thanks for the tip, sounds divine!

Back from eating mackerel!

Similar eggless thing sounds intriguing - we sometimes have egg crises which throw a major spanner in my baking obsession.

One thing I would say is ... the chocolate jezebel doesn't keep that well ... so you need to eat it in one sitting. Sheer piggery. But what can you do.

I'm off to plot my chocolate polenta cake, which I'm practising for a wheat-allergic visitor over Christmas!

For Pidge (credit to a poster on moneysavingexpert.com for this amazingly easy and absolutely divine recipe, I have shamelessly C&Ped)

Chocolate fudge Pudding

First find a cup that holds 8 fl oz of liquid(a US cup measure)

Grease a shallow baking dish - about 9'' by 13''

Sift together
1 cup plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
⅔ cup sugar
2 tbsp cocoa

add
½ cup milk
2 tbsp melted butter or marge
1 tsp vanilla extract(optional)

Mix until just smooth,then spoon into the baking dish.

Mix together
4 tbsp cocoa
1 cup soft brown sugar(light or dark)

Sprinkle over batter in dish.
Pour over all 1 ½ cups of just-boiled water - DO NOT STIR

Bake for 40 mins at 180c
Serve warm with whipped cream......yummmy
When it's cooked there will be a thick fudgy sauce a the bottom of the pudding and a cakey bit on top. It's nice with some instant coffee(about a dessert spoon) added to the cocoa and sugar bit.

That should say 2/3 cup sugar

Whilst on the search for a quick easy pudding to make for tonight in the Mnet archives I just found Pidges recipe (sounds fab!) and was wondering if anyone knows if I can make the mixture up and then keep it until tonight to put in the oven?

Will it store in the fridge ok??

Sorry - am a complete novice at all things kitcheny and need all the help I can get!

Thanks in advance

PicknMix

Pidge I am going to make that tomorrow, it sounds very easy and quick and I have all the ingredients. I've been wondering what to do with the left over cooking chocolate.