Elaine's Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding
chaosmanor, who moved to insanejournal in 2007, posted a chocolate self-saucing pudding recipe in 2005 that I was clever enough to save to my hard drive. Whereupon I remember a discussion in which we talked about it overflowing in the oven and Elaine said, memorably, "I'll clean the oven when I'm dead."
The reason I am posting this now is I just made one again, and it needs to be shared. It is piss easy. I added a buttload of cinnamon to mine, so it smells great, and used a random amount of oil because I had no butter and couldn't be arsed translating the quantity to metric. And it is a chocolate self-saucing pudding: hello.
Elaine (chaosmanor) wrote,
@ 2005-06-12 16:44:00
Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding
In imperial measurements because the recipe predates Australia going metric.
This gives you a cake floating in a pan of sauce.
2 oz margarine
½ cup sugar
1 cup self-raising flour
2 dessertspoons cocoa
1 egg
½ cup of milk.
Melt margarine, add to sugar, flour and cocoa. Stir in egg and milk. Put in greased baking pan.
Sift and place on top:
½ cup of sugar
2 dessertspoons of cocoa
Then gently spoon over
3 ½ cups of boiling water.
Bake for ¾ hours at 375 Fahrenheit
This is the base recipe. For my tribe, I double all the quantities. Last night, I didn’t have enough cocoa, so I replaced all the cocoa in the cake bit with melted chocolate. This recipe is really robust, I’ve mistreated it in just about any way imaginable, and it always tastes great.
The reason I am posting this now is I just made one again, and it needs to be shared. It is piss easy. I added a buttload of cinnamon to mine, so it smells great, and used a random amount of oil because I had no butter and couldn't be arsed translating the quantity to metric. And it is a chocolate self-saucing pudding: hello.
Elaine (chaosmanor) wrote,
@ 2005-06-12 16:44:00
Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding
In imperial measurements because the recipe predates Australia going metric.
This gives you a cake floating in a pan of sauce.
2 oz margarine
½ cup sugar
1 cup self-raising flour
2 dessertspoons cocoa
1 egg
½ cup of milk.
Melt margarine, add to sugar, flour and cocoa. Stir in egg and milk. Put in greased baking pan.
Sift and place on top:
½ cup of sugar
2 dessertspoons of cocoa
Then gently spoon over
3 ½ cups of boiling water.
Bake for ¾ hours at 375 Fahrenheit
This is the base recipe. For my tribe, I double all the quantities. Last night, I didn’t have enough cocoa, so I replaced all the cocoa in the cake bit with melted chocolate. This recipe is really robust, I’ve mistreated it in just about any way imaginable, and it always tastes great.