Self saucing chocolate pudding is the perfect dessert in a hurry. If you’ve just cooked a wonderful dinner, but have found yourself light on dessert, this self saucing pudding recipe takes just ten minutes to prepare, so you can get back to your guests and enjoy the wonderful smell of chocolatey goodness baking away in the oven. Be sure to whip some cream to go with it, or add a scoop of ice cream melt on top!
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| Prep Time | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time | 40 minutes |
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Ingredients
Mixture
- 100 grams butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1.25 cups flour
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoons baking powder
- 0.25 teaspoons salt
- 160 mls milk
- .5 teaspoon vanilla essence (natural where possible)
Self Sauce
- 1 cup brown sugar
- .5 cup white sugar
- 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 cups boiling water
Ingredients
Mixture
Self Sauce
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Instructions
- Preheat the oven to normal bake at 180°C.
- Melt your butter and mix in the sugar and cocoa powder (from the mixture, not self sauce section)
- Add your flour, baking powder and salt. Mix these in until combined, but there is no need to over mix here.
- Add your milk and vanilla essence and mix it in.
- Put your mixture into a dish. Make sure that the dish is deep enough, as the self saucing will boil up. A dish of around 20-25cm is a good size, but make sure the mixture at this point only comes up to around a quarter of the dishes height.
- With the brown and white sugar and cocoa powder for the sauce, put it on top of your mixture.
- When you are ready to put it in the oven, pour your boiling water on top of the mixture. Pouring onto a spoon will help to spread the water without making holes in the mixture below.
- Bake for 40 minutes at 180°C. You'll know when it's ready, trust me!
Recipe Notes
Serve this pudding hot, with whipped cream or ice cream. It will really compliment the chocolate sauce and the warm/cold mix is a dessert delight!
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Can you please advise what difference it would be to the sauce if I used boiling milk instead of boiling water in the self sauce.
Thanks
I love it I made it once for my family and they beg for me to make it every night for pudding. It is on the top of my food chain. Thank You
2 Cups of water is listed in the ingredients. However at the end you say boiling water. Too late, I put two cups of cold water into the mixture. Ruined.
Thanks for the feedback – we’ve reviewed and amended the recipe!
Thank you I will not try and use cold water
This recipe must have been sponsored by a sugar manufacturer! as way to sweet for for any chocolate lover.
Are you sure it is 4 tspns of baking powder was way too much. It was all you could taste!!
Hi, thanks for the feedback! That was the recipe that was submitted but there might be an error in there, we’ll reduce it down to 1 tsp. Thanks!
I used to use this recipe all the time (before website was updated) and used 4 tsp of baking powder, which worked just fine! I was actually trying to figure out if this was the same website and recipes as before, and this comment confirms it must be, so thanks haha!!
Does that mean that with 1 tblsp baking powder instead of 4 that was earlier, ( and used too by of I the readers with success), the recipe will fail? Happy to hear from you
The cocoa powder seems to have been left out of the list of ingredients for the mixture
Hi, thanks for pointing that out. It has been fixed now, there should be 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder in the mixture and 4 in the sauce. Thanks again!