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Chocolate pudding

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janeite · 29/05/2008 20:13

Does anybody please have a fail-safe recipe for one of those chocolate puddings where you end up with sauce at the bottom? We've just had one from M&S (pressie from lovely MiL AND she bought me roses!) and it was scrummy but I'd prefer to make my own in future. Cheers!

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janeite · 29/05/2008 21:32

91 posts on a Britain's Got No Talent thread (whatever the flip that is) and not ONE of you can talk chocolate pudding with me?

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PhDlifeNeedsaNewLife · 29/05/2008 21:33

I have a recipe for a hot self-saucing pud, is that what you mean?

PhDlifeNeedsaNewLife · 29/05/2008 21:33

god just thinking about it is making me drool...

janeite · 29/05/2008 21:41

Yes, yes, yes! Please! Double drool!

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PhDlifeNeedsaNewLife · 29/05/2008 21:55

okay. Although I'll have you know, typing it means I am now going to have to make it. Well, not now, obviously. Tomorrow though.

Heat 60g butter and 1/2c milk in a saucepan til butter melts. Add 1 tsp vanilla.

Sift together 3/4c caster sugar, 1tbsp cocoa, 1c self-raising flour, make a well, and add butter mix. Stir and pour into a greased ovenproof dish.

Mix together 3/4c brown sugar and 1tbsp (hint, do NOT do this in a 1-cup measuring cup ). Sprinkle this over the pudding. Pour 2c hot water over.

Bake at 350F for 40-45mins. Pudding will be floating on chocolate syrup, so it may not look done, but after this amount of time it usually is. Except that one time when the gas went out.

Not strictly necessary to serve with vanilla ice-cream, but oh so much better if you do...

janeite · 29/05/2008 23:17

Oh you wonderful woman you. Thankyou! Sorry to be a pain but do those "cups" translate into ounces at all?

And 1tbs of WHAT is mixed with the sugar for sprinkling please?

I could eat it now - all of it; with icecream too.

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SniffyHock · 29/05/2008 23:19

this is the fail-safe Delia version.

I have made them many times and they're always perfect. The best bit is that you can make them in advance and then cook them straight from the freezer.

A real crowd-pleaser

janeite · 29/05/2008 23:25

Thanks Sniffy - looks like I'll have to make it twice now!

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janeite · 29/05/2008 23:26

Can you make Delia's as one big one? I'm aiming for a rustic crowd pleaser with no faff (and less washing up!), rather than dinner party dinkiness, if poss.

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SniffyHock · 30/05/2008 09:21

Never tried it as a big one - I think you'll just have to give it a try first!

MrsBadger · 30/05/2008 09:28

This one multiplies up well:

3oz SR
4 level tbsp drinking chocolate
1 1/2 oz marg or butter
3 oz sugar
5 tbsp milk
few drops vanilla essence if you have it

sift flour and choc
add butter cut into small bits then sugar, milk and essence
stir and pour into greased dish

sprinkle over:
2oz soft brown sugar (or demerara)
2 level tbsp drinking choc

pour over 1/2 pint boiling water

gas 4 35min

fruittea · 30/05/2008 09:32

I think the Delia one can seem a bit cocoa-powder-y rather than chocolatey, iirc. The Nigella Lawson one has chocolate in it too:

Pudding:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch salt
1/4 cup good unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup ground hazelnuts
1 2/3 cups confectioners sugar
2 1/2 ounces best semisweet chocolate chopped roughly or chocolate morsels
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Sauce:
1 cup dark brown or dark muscovado sugar
1 1/4 cups unsweetened cocoa powder

Preparation: Preheat the oven to 350°.
Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa into a bowl, stir in the hazelnuts and the sugar, then add the chocolate. Whisk together the melted butter, egg, milk and vanilla and pour into the dry ingredients. Stir well, so it's all thoroughly mixed, then spoon into the buttered dish.
Now for the sauce, not that you make it yourself (the cooking does that for you) but you have to get the ingredients together. Bring 2 1/2 cups of water to a boil. Mix the brown sugar and cocoa and sprinkle over the top of the pudding mixture in the dish. Pour the boiled water up to the 2 cup mark of a measuring cup, then pour over the pudding. Put the water-drenched pudding directly into the oven and leave it there for about 50 minutes.

Don't open the door until a good 45 minutes have passed and then press: if it feels fairly firm and springy to the touch, it's ready. If you're using the shallow dish, it'll be ready in 35-40 minutes.

Remove from the oven and serve immediately, spooning from the dish and making sure everyone gets both sauce and sponge.

MrsBadger · 30/05/2008 09:38

that always makes me laugh - the Nigella and the 1950s-inherited-from-mum versions of the same recipe side by side...

janeite · 30/05/2008 23:08

Thanks all. Going to try it on Sunday I think - might start with Mrs B's as it looks easy and (unlike Nigella's) doesn't have lots of expensive ingredients!

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