Dessert Recipes > Sticky Chocolate Pudding

This recipe is part of the April 2009 Recipes Menu


Starter - Traditional Green Pea Soup
Main Course - Lamb Chops With A Herb Crust
Dessert - Sticky Chocolate Pudding

How to make Sticky Chocolate Pudding:
The stickiest, most chocolatey pudding you've ever tasted. Sweet and rich and smothered in its own sauce it is delicious eaten hot or cold.





Ingredients

Sticky Chocolate Pudding
2oz butter
3 tablespoon of cocoa powder
3oz caster sugar
4oz plain flour sifted with 2 teaspoons of baking powder and a pinch of salt
6 tablespoons of milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

to make the sauce:

2oz dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons of cocoa
2oz caster sugar
20 tablespoons of normal strength cold, black coffee
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Melt together the butter and the 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder in a large basin over a pan of hot water.
- Add the 3oz of caster sugar
- Mix well.
- Remove from the heat.
- Beat in the flour mixture.
- Beat in the milk and vanilla extract.
- Pour the mixture into a deep, greased, ovenproof dish.
- Mix together the 2oz brown sugar, 2 tablespoons of cocoa and 2oz of caster sugar.
- Sprinkle over the mixture in the ovenproof dish.
- Pour the cold coffee over the top.
- Bake at 180 degrees C. for about 40 minutes.
- Serve hot or cold with cream.