Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding
My Mum used to frequently make Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding for the family in winter. I never liked it much, I found way too sweet!
I’ve been mulling over adapting Mum’s pudding recipe for quite a while, then a few weeks ago after making a fabulous flourless chocolate cake posted by “ the Cooking Chook” the inspiration came. Maybe strong coffee would counteract much of the unavoidable use of sugar in the sauce element.
As well as adding coffee to the pudding, I upped the amount of cocoa, added some walnut meal and an egg, then reduced the amount of sugar. The sauce ingredients are the same as the original recipe except for the addition of coffee.
I served the pudding warm with pouring cream and it was seriously good. Sorry Mum xx
pudding:
1 cup spelt flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 cup walnut meal
Scant 1/2 cup castor sugar
2 tablespoons Dutch process cocoa powder
2 shots of espresso made up to 125 mls with milk
OR 2 teaspoons of instant coffee in 125 mls of warm milk
60g butter, melted
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
sauce:
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 heaped tablespoon Dutch process cocoa
2 shots espresso coffee made up to 2 cups with hot water
Grease an 8 cup ovenproof dish. This may seem large for the amount of batter but it will boil over while baking if there is not plenty of room. I hate cleaning the oven!
Sift the flour, cocoa and baking powder into a bowl. Add the castor sugar and walnut meal and stir to combine. Make a well in the centre.
Measure the shots of coffee and make the volume up to 125 mls with milk, then stir in the vanilla. Lightly whisk the egg and melt the butter.
Tip the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and using a wooden spoon beat until smooth. You can do this in the mixer if you’re feeling lazy.
Tip the pudding into the prepared dish and smooth the surface.
Combine the brown sugar and cocoa, then sprinkle evenly over the pudding.
Measure the shots of coffee and make the volume up to 2 cups with hot water.
Gently pour the hot coffee over the pudding then set aside to rest for 30 minutes.
Pre heat the oven to 180C
Bake the pudding for 30 minutes ou until the pudding feels firm in the centre. Remove the pudding from the oven and allow to rest for 30 minutes so that the molten heat dissipates from the sauce. Serves 6-8
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Oh wow. I love self-saucing pudding but I haven’t made it for ages!! Love the idea of the additional coffee. So delicious! Making this soon (to counteract this freezing weather, argh!). thanks for sharing your version!
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An absolute pleasure Laura. Great pudding weather in Melbourne too, but will have to settle for a glass of red, no time to make pudding tonight.
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Haha, a nice glass of red definitely suffices in my opinion! 🙂
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Just the sort of dessert for a cold day. I love chocolate.
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Perfect for today in fact.
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Oh my, that looks absolutely divine!! I so love chocolate and this is my kind of dessert!
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It was good. My pudding loving husband was in heaven!
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Looks so good!
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Thank you
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