Friday 20 July 2012

FOOD FRIDAY - CHOCOLATE PUDDING

“Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power. It is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.” - Baron Justus von Liebig
 
It was delightful to come home on Friday night after being away for three days for work. It was a cold dark Winter’s night and coming home into a warm house that smelt delightfully of chocolate was great. Nothing better to warm one up than a hot chocolate pudding!

Chocolate Pudding
Ingredients
For the pudding
1 cup self-raising flour
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
2/3 cup brown sugar
100g butter, melted, cooled
1/4 cup milk
¼ cup crème de cacao liqueur
A few drops of vanilla essence
1 egg, lightly beaten
Thick cream or ice cream to serve

For the Sauce

3/4 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa powder, sifted
1 tablespoon butter
50 g cooking chocolate melted in microwave
1 and 1/4 cups boiling water

Method
  • Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease an 8-cup capacity ovenproof pudding baking dish. Sift flour and cocoa into a large bowl. Stir in sugar.
  • Combine butter, milk, liqueur, vanilla essence and egg in a jug. Slowly add to flour mixture, whisking until well combined and smooth.
  • Spoon into the baking dish. Smooth top.
  • Place dish onto a baking tray. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until pudding bounces back when pressed gently in centre.
  • Make sauce: Combine sugar and cocoa and pour boiling water in, stirring to mix. Add the butter and melted chocolate, and keep stirring until smooth.
  • Serve hot with cream or ice cream.

This post is part of the Food Friday meme,
and also of the Food Trip Friday meme.

5 comments:

  1. That looks incredibly delicious!

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  2. This sounds awesome and I am just getting my shopping list together so must get what I need to try this.

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  3. yummmmmmmmmmmmmm that chocolate pudding looks very delish as I love chocolates too :-) Dropping by from Food Friday.

    http://www.homecookingwithjessy.com/our-first-snacks-board-plane/

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  4. oh wow...that looks soo delicious! would love to try your recipe..bookmarked! :)

    thanks so much for sharing and linking over at Food Friday

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  5. Can I have some pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee? I am a chocolate fan too :-) Dropping by from last weeks Food Trip Friday :-)

    http://www.homecookingwithjessy.com/celebrated-her-advance-6th-birthday-at-jollibee/

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