This chocolate pudding cake is, I do believe, the first chocolate dessert I ever made as a child growing up in Canada. I’d found a cocoa company recipe book (Fry’s possibly?) when I was around aged 12 and simply had to try it out. I’ve been making it regularly ever since. My original transcription of the recipe has become intelligible in my ancient notebook and it’s that good I had to rewrite in in a newer notebook collection. Now it’s on my blog to share with all you fine readers! It’s inexpensive to make as it uses store-cupboard ingredients, contains no eggs and hardly dirties any dishes at all! Mix the batter in the dish you intend to cook the pudding in – I use a 24 cm Le Crueset dish (a charity shop bargain at ÂŁ1), and away you go – perfect comfort food!
This recipe employs a rather unusual technique in that boiling water is poured over cake batter which has first been sprinkled with a cocoa powder and sugar. During the cooking process the water soaks down into the bottom of the dish resulting in a deliciously chocolatey pudding beneath a fudgey cake topping. Serve with ice cream or lashings of double cream, curl up on the couch in your PJs with a bowl of this and a good book for a very civilised Saturday evening in. I’m not ashamed to admit that any leftovers make a very nice breakfast, cold, the next morning!
This recipe was selected by DD out of my notebook collection for Dom from Belleau Kitchen’s Random Recipes challenge #26. I don’t know how random the selection was because she can now read and the word ‘chocolate’ may have stood out significantly, but nonetheless, it was selected, I made it, we ate and enjoyed it and here’s the recipe for your perusal!
- 150 grams plain flour
- 300 grams caster sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 118 grams butter, melted
- 80 grams cocoa powder, divided
- 100 ml full fat milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 50 grams chopped nuts, optional
- 300 ml hot water
Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Yield: Serves 6-8
Suzanne
That notebook is incredible, what a wonderful thing to have to hand. I use puddings like this a lot during the winter, so you can guarantee I’ll be trying this one. Looks wonderful.
Recipe Junkie
This looks like my kind of pudding – delicious. I love these self saucing puds – I’ve got a recipe for a gorgeous lemon one
belleau kitchen
what a beautiful pudding, there is nothing quite as magical as a hot fudge pudding… so gorgeous… but most of all I adore your beautiful old notebook, it looks most definitely ‘well loved’ as they say… thank you so much for entering this month, always lovely to have you on board xx
Julian Onions
I think this is what we call magic chocolate pudding.
Elizabeth
It certainly is magic!