Chocolate Fudge Pudding

Ingredients
1 cup (4oz) self raising flour
4oz butter
1/2 cup (4oz) fine ground (castor) sugar
2 tbs cocoa
2 eggs

Topping
6oz semi-sweet (plain) chocolate
1 tbs castor sugar
4 tbs light (single) cream

Method
1. Well grease a pudding dish and bring water to boil in a saucepan or the bottom part of a steamer. The water should come 3/4 of the way up the pudding basin (dish).

2. First make the topping. Melt the chocolate (see techniques) and then stir in the cream and sugar and put in the bottom of the basin.

3. Beat the butter until soft, then beat in sugar until light and fluffy.

4. Gradually beat in the eggs, add a tablespoon of flour if the mixture starts to curdle.

5. Sieve the flour and cocoa together then fold into the butter mixture. Put the mixture into the pudding basin.

6. Cover the pudding basin with aluminium foil, overlapping the sides of the basin. Tie string securely around the top of the basin to keep the foil in place so preventing water entering. (Alternatively you can get plastic pudding basins with lids that clip on.)

7. Put the basin in the saucepan with the boiling water. Adjust the heat so the water simmers constantly and keep topped up with boiling water as it boils away.

8. Cook for about 90 minutes, turn on to a plate to serve with cream.

 

 

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