Chocolate Pudding?

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi everyone, I am cooking tomorrow night for a family get together. I am doing steak and kidney pudding and a vegetarian casserole. I have a great lemon tart recipe which always goes down well but would also like to do a chocolate pudding (something the kids would like). Any suggestions? I am not going to have time to go shopping so needs to be store cupboards ingredients really.

Any ideas would be great - I am a bit stuck.

Hippeechiq

This is totally lush, and very easy to make, and is pretty much store cupboard based.

TheBees wrote: »

As requested, here is the recipe for self saucing chocolate pudding - found in a magazine a few years ago.

Serves 8 (or 4 hungry people!)

Pie dish 750ml (1 1/4pt)
125g plain flour
pinch of salt
60g caster sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
120ml milk
40g melted butter
1 egg
couple drops vanilla essence

Topping
180g muscovado or any brown sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
250ml boiling water

Method
Grease the pie dish
Sieve the dry ingredients into a bowl. Combine the milk, butter, egg and vanilla and mix with the dry ingredients all together. Pour into the pie dish. Cover with cling film and put in the fridge. Can be left overnight for the following day if you wish.
Preheat oven 180c. Sprinkle cocoa and sugar for the topping over the pudding. Pour the boiling water over the top. Do not mix. Place in oven and cook for 45 minutes until puffy and firm in the centre. May be served with cream or ice cream.

It must be like a zillion calories, but it's sooooo good. And, as you can see from the method, you can make the first stage of it up early and just finish it off later.

If you try it, don't be put off by how it looks after your pour the boiling water over the top......looks similar to a mud pie you made when you were a kid, but its' supposed to look like that, and the chocolate sauce that it creates is divine I use Soft Dark Brown Sugar by the way, but it does state that any brown sugar will do.

YORKSHIRELASS

Thanks Hippeechiq, thats exactly the sort of thing I was after. Have got some brown sugar left over from making the christmas cake so will use that up. Even better I can make it in the morning and leave it in the fridge, I am cooking for 9 so the more preparation I can do early in the day the better.

Will report back and let you know how turns out!!