Chocolate Sauce

Topher

Microwave Chocolate Pudding

Pudding
4 ozs soft margarine (100g)
4 ozs caster sugar (100g)
2 eggs
3 ozs Self Raising Flour (75g)
1 oz cocoa powder (25g)
Sauce
1 oz cocoa (25g)
1 oz caster sugar (25g)
1 tbsp Golden Syrup
6 oz can of evaporated milk (170g)
1 oz butter (25g)
2 tsp cornflour

Recipe allegedly serves 4, depends how chocoholic they are.

Prepare 1½ pint pudding basin, by greasing & base lining with greaseproof paper.
Pudding
1) Place margarine, sugar & eggs in a bowl, sift in flour & cocoa, beat until smooth.
2) Spoon the mixture into a 1½ pint ( 750 ml ) greased & base lined pudding basin, level the top and cook for 4 mins on full power. (5 mins in our microwave) until well risen, and pudding springs back when pressed with finger tips. Run a knife round the edge of the sponge, invert the basin onto a serving plate & LEAVE FOR 5 MINS BEFORE REMOVING BASIN.
3) Meanwhile, make the sauce. Sift cocoa into a large heatproof jug, add caster sugar, syrup, then gradually stir in the evaporated milk. Mix until smooth, add butter cut into pieces.
4) Cook for 1 minute ( I make that 1½ ) on full power until hot. Mix cornflour to a smooth paste ( I use 3 teaspoons) with a little water. Stir this into the cocoa mixture, and cook for 1 min (2 in ours) until thickened. ( I find that if this hasn’t worked, stirring well, and putting back in microwave for bursts of ½ minute, interspersed with more stirring to maintain smoothness, eventually works)
5) Serve

Full power was written in the days when 750 was the best you could get.

T.

skipkoo

Hi all
We have some fruit that needs eating pdq, and I was thinking about chopping it all up into bite sized pieces and then either putting it into bowls and pouring the hot sauce all over or making a kind of foundue so we can dip the fruit ourselves. Sounds great you may think, but I have no idea how to make what I want Any well loved, very easy and of course cheap recipes that you would like to share?
S x

seraphina

The Delia recipe below http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient/chocolate/steamed-chocolate-pudding-with-chocolate-sauce.html

is my default chocolate sauce now - so easy and not too expensive (it's only choc, evap milk and normal milk. Foolproof!

skipkoo

thanks seraphina, that sounds great :-)

esmf73

need to try the Nigella one that is gorgeous..... www.nigella.com

skipkoo

ooo yes, i love nigella's recipes, thanks for that
S

chem_j

Hi,
I was in Thorntons the other day and I noticed they had a chocolate dipping/fondue set. The chocolate sauce was in a jar and had to be heated in the microwave before you dipped in the marshmallows, fudge etc.
I was hoping to make a set for my brother for Christmas, so does anyone know of a good recipe for the chocolate. It would need to one that would keep, preferably out of the fridge, as it may not be eaten straight away. Or maybe this isn't possible - maybe it's the additives that make it stay fresh?
Thanks!

falady

Hi there,

I'm not sure about the ingredients for the thorntons dipping sauce (might be on the jar?) but I would just melt some chocolate when I needed it. Could you include a bar or two of high cocoa solids chcoclate (about 70%) and include those, with instructions on how to melt the chocolate gently in a glass bowl over a pan of simmering water? I sometimes add a bit of butter or cream to the melted chcoclate, but that's all it is. Anything in the thorntons jar that is keeping the chcolate in its liquid state dosn't sound all that appealing to me!

jbreckmckye

Usually, these sort of things tend to be made by melting chocolate and adding a small quantity of milk and vegetable oil. That, by the way, is how chocolate fountains function.

aliadds

This chocolate sauce is delicious!It's from the Bero recipe for profiteroles but I've also used it with ice cream!
SAUCE:
150 g (5 oz) chocolate, chopped
2 x 15 ml spoon (2 tbsp) soft brown sugar
2 x 15 ml spoon (2 tbsp) water
50 g (2 oz) butter
1 x 15 ml spoon (1 tbsp) rum or brandy

Just melt it all together gently. The alcohol is optional.
HTH