Easy Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding
Ingredients
- 1 cup self raising flour If you don't have self raising flour make your own by mixing one cup plain flour with 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/3 cup caster sugar or normal white sugar
- 2 tbsp cocoa
- 1/2 cup milk
- 45 gram butter, melted and cooled
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 100 grams dark chocolate
Chocolate Sauce
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3 tbsp cocoa
- 1 1/4 cup boiling water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Grease a large pudding dish.
- Add dark chocolate to a small ziplock bag and place in a heatproof bowl. Cover with boiling water and sit until melted. This will only take a minute or two.
- In a mixing bowl combine flour, sugar and cocoa and stir to combine.
- In another bowl or jug whisk together the milk, melted butter, egg, pinch of salt and vanilla.
- Mix the melted chocolate into the egg mixture and whisk well to combine.
- Pour egg mixture into the flour mix and stir until combined.
- Spread the pudding mixture into your prepared dish.
- Combine brown sugar and cocoa and sprinkle over top of the pudding.
- Gently pour over boiling water using the back of a spoon to disperse the water.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until the pudding is cooked.
- Dust with icing sugar (powdered sugar) and serve warm with cream or ice cream.
Notes
I love serving this pudding with reduced fat cream from a can. I know it sounds bad but you should give it a try I think you'll be surprised!. Here's the link.