Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding

This pudding is dangerous!
It comes with a warning about eating too much cocoa, sugar and fat.
But the end product is delicious.
This dessert really needs to eaten in small amounts and with fresh fruit to cut through the richness.
This recipe makes enough for 3-4 people.
Also be aware that the dessert will bubble in the oven and may overflow your oven dish and will then burn on the bottom of the oven.

Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding.

Equipment:

Oven dish

Large bowl

Sieve

Wooden spoon

Spatula

Measuring cups/spoons

Ingredients: (per pair)

3/4 cup self raising flour (or 3/4 cup plain flour and 3/4 tsp baking powder)

2 Tbsp cocoa

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup milk

75g butter (melted)

1/4 tsp vanilla essence

Sauce:

3/4 cup boiling water

1/4 cup sugar

2 tsp cocoa

METHOD:

1.   Preheat the oven to 180ºC and lightly grease a 3 cup capacity oven proof dish.

2.   In a mixing bowl, sift flour and cocoa and stir in the sugar.

3.   Make a well in the dry ingredients. 

4.   Pour in the milk, vanilla and butter and mix quickly to form a stiff mixture.

5.   Spread the batter into the prepared oven dish.

6.   Mix the boiling water, sugar and cocoa together and pour over the back of a spoon, evenly over the batter.

7.   Bake in the oven for 25 minutes or until the sponge is cooked. Place a tray under the oven dish to stop spillages.

8.   Remove from oven and let cool down for 5 minutes.

9.   Cut and serve on a plate with fresh fruit.