Self-Saucing Chocolate Pudding

"This is a Margaret Fulton recipe and has been a family favourite for nearly 30 years. The original called for walnuts (I have never used) so have made that a footnote in the directions. Serve with whipped cream and/or ice cream. A comfort dessert."
 
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Ready In:
55mins
Ingredients:
12
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 180°C.
  • Grease 6 cup oven-proof dish.
  • For the sauce mix together cocoa and brown sugar in a jug and pour in hot water and stir till sugar is dissolved.
  • For the pudding sift flour, cocoa, instant coffee powder and salt together.
  • Cream butter and sugar until light, gradually beat in eggs and vanilla.
  • Add a little flour, then some milk (alternate between the two keeping a soft consistency) finishing with the flour (don't worry if you don't use up all the milk.
  • Spoon mixture into well greased oven dish and spread evenly. If using sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of chopped walnuts.
  • Spoon sauce over the pudding mixture till you have a layer of sauce then pour the rest over the back of the spoon.
  • Bake for 35-40 minutes.
  • Serve with whipped cream and or ice cream and walnut halves if using.

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Reviews

  1. My goodness you have a lucky family Pat, to have enjoyed this recipe for so long. This was wonderful. It smothered the chocolate coffee craving that I was having perfectly. My picky dh was heard exclaiming muummmm mmummm. Is there anymore left? This recipe was quick and very easy to make. Truly a comfort dessert. So tender and gooey and very chocolately. Thanks so much for sharing this winner.
     
  2. It didn't work for me, but it did for the rest of my family,my parents included. For me it was too sweet and too rich. That's becoz I don't care about chocolate much, but I can imagine for a chocolate lover how delicous this must be. Also had a little disaster, the pan was too small,overfloated, but I was able to replace it. I also know why it didn't work for me. I previously tried your lemon pudding and fell in love with it and this couldn't replace it.
     
  3. Followed the recipe exacctly and what a wonderful outcome. I served with ice cream and it was absolutely wonderful and so very srumptious. I did add the coffe although not the walnuts much to DH's disgust, and this was a very rich and chocolately pudding. Thanks Pat for a wonderful recipe enjoyed by all in this family.
     
  4. I suddenly have a craving for pudding, and got sick of chocolate, but found your one with coffee in it, so I subbed the 2tb cocoa in the pudding for 1 tb instant coffee powder, and 2ts instant coffee subbed the 1tb of cocoa in the sauce. The aroma is amazing! However, next time I'll cut down the sauce, both the water and the sugar, it's quite sickening after a while, but the pudding itself is great, not too sweet, just heavenly!! Update: I had to make it again today coz I had the cravings (yet again) and took out the cocoa powder and the coffee powder and vanilla, and replaced with 1/2ts freshly squeezed lemon juice in the pudding part. I also replaced the cocoa with 1tb lemon juice in the sauce, came out beautiful! One of the many ways to change th flavour of this recipe!
     
  5. My husband and I are both chocaholics so I left out the coffee but stired chocolate bits in to the sauce and the pudding mixture and it was simply divine. It was so rich, moist and creamy. mm-mm. It's definitely on the 'must do again list'
     
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  1. I suddenly have a craving for pudding, and got sick of chocolate, but found your one with coffee in it, so I subbed the 2tb cocoa in the pudding for 1 tb instant coffee powder, and 2ts instant coffee subbed the 1tb of cocoa in the sauce. The aroma is amazing! However, next time I'll cut down the sauce, both the water and the sugar, it's quite sickening after a while, but the pudding itself is great, not too sweet, just heavenly!! Update: I had to make it again today coz I had the cravings (yet again) and took out the cocoa powder and the coffee powder and vanilla, and replaced with 1/2ts freshly squeezed lemon juice in the pudding part. I also replaced the cocoa with 1tb lemon juice in the sauce, came out beautiful! One of the many ways to change th flavour of this recipe!
     

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