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by Member 25348569

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My God-daughter searched out this recipe and we cooked it last week when the family came over for lunch.

Microwave Chocolate Pudding

Prepped in five minutes, cooked in six, eaten in two. Warning! The sauce is difficult to get out of clothing!

Ingredients

Cakey bit

4 oz self-raising flour
4 oz caster (fine) sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
4 tbsp milk
1 (beaten) egg
2 oz butter/margarine
1 oz cocoa powder
pinch salt

Topping

1 oz cocoa powder
4 oz soft brown sugar
quarter pint hot water

Method

Sift flour, sugar, salt and 1 oz cocoa into a mixing bowl.

Melt butter on high in a microwave for 45 seconds.

Add melted butter to dry ingredients, along with egg, vanilla essence and milk. Beat well or, preferably, get Goddaughter to do it.

Pour mixture into 8" souffl? dish or medium-sized, high-sided microwave-proof dish. Or bucket if, like us, you make one double-sized.

Mix together brown sugar and remaining 1 oz cocoa and sprinkle over top of mixture. Pour over hot water until covered.

Cook on high power for 5-6 mins or until set on top. Double-sized takes around 8 minutes.

The pudding will separate on cooking, giving a chocolate fudge sauce at the bottom. Serve with cream, custard or ice-cream.

Serves four. Or me...

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We had it with custard (of course! We're Brits!) but it would work well with some thick cream and it was so good that I'm doing it again for lunch today. It may kill me but what a way to go!

Neil :D

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by nicknielsen

Or will it plop onto a serving platter if you invert it?

Sounds delish, but I can feel my teeth rotting just reading the recipe.

by Member 25348569

The brown sugar+cocoa powder mix on top forms a hot fudge sauce that goes to the bottom of the sponge. You possibly could butter the cooking dish really well and get the pudding out but I haven't tried that.

:D

We had a second dose today. Although it was their turn to feed me, we decided to try the chocolate pudding out again. We just dug it out of the dish, though.

by santeewelding

You hit upon the tipping point to all our concerns about global warming and the course of mankind. We go with a chocolately grin.

by Member 25348569

If I'd put "[Insert Deity of Choice or Fundamental Universal Progenitor or Secular Guiding Principle] for the Internet", it would have detracted from the real point of the post.

CHOCOLATE PUDDING!

by tig2

But I read it as "Generic Deity" as I saw who authored the OP.
When the writer is Neil, it's just a figure of speech!

Love the recipe, Neil. I gained ten pounds just reading it. To
quote you, Bugger!

by gadgetgirl

ruining all the hard work on your diet, Neil?!

Oh well - you can always make the same resolution this year!

(but you don't need, to IMHO :) )

Sounds lush, babz! Rowntrees Cocoa, here I come! :p

:x

GG

by shellbot

Same type of batter, except with lots of raisens..

the sauce was water, brown sugar, a bit of butter and cinnamon..(i used to add a bit of nutmeg too)

Sweet..but nice with a bit of ice cream :)

She did it in a normal oven though, not the microwave..took about 35 mins to cook up I think.

by tink!

Sounds wonderful...think I'll try it this weekend.

Just an itsy-bitsy quibble, I believe I'd call this more of a Molten Lava or Volcano cake than a Chocolate Pudding. Especially when it's recommended to be served WITH custard - which in my purely Midwest opinion, is much the same as pudding. But that could just be me. :D

Anyway, if it turns out the way I think it will, my daughter will love you Neil! She loves this local restaurant's Volcano cake and I think this might just satisfy that taste. :x

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