I was given this recipe for Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding by my lovely Aunty Marilyn when I was a young girl and have made no other version since! The ingredients are everyday basics you have in the pantry so this makes a perfect go to dessert when you are wanting something sweet and decadent. You are left with a lovely chocolate cake like pudding and a thick chocolatey gooey sauce, perfect on its own or divine with ice cream, cream or yoghurt.
You can easily whisk it up while dinner is cooking – pop it in the oven and by the time you have finished eating dinner its ready to go for dessert! Perfect for a cold winters evening, or really any time of the year as lets face it when is chocolate dessert not a good idea!
Ingredients
Base:
1 Cup flour
3/4 Cup Sugar
2 TBSP Cocoa
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp Baking Powder
2 TBSP Butter (melted)
1/2 Cup Milk
1 tsp Vanilla
1 TBSP Coconut (Optional)
Sauce:
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
1 TBSP Cocoa
1 1/2 to 2 Cups Boiling Water
Method
Heat oven to 150C
For the base combine the flour, sugar, cocoa, salt and baking powder and mix well. Add coconut here if using.
Add to this the milk, melted butter and vanilla. Combine ingrdients until smooth and creamy. Pour into a casserole dish or a large ring mould.
For the sauce, combine the brown sugar, and cocoa – combine well and sprinkle over the base mixture until well covered and even. Pour over boiling water and cover with a sheet of waxed paper or lid.
Bake for 30-40 minutes – knife will come out of cake clean once done.
Serve straight away or set aside in fridge to heat later in the day with whipped cream or ice cream. The one photographed today does not include coconut, but it is just as tasty with or without!
I hope you enjoy this lovely recipe my family have been enjoying for years. Feel free to check out the other easy yummy recipes here on my blog and fun kids activities also.
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Happy Baking!
Anna
Eszter Colebrooke says
I made this tonight and it was lovely, not too sweet which I to loved!
Anna From Just A Mum says
Thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Anna
Yvonne says
Hi
How many servings is this recipe. Thanks
Ashlee says
This is one of my kids favourites! I’ve made it vegan friendly for dinner with the in-laws a few times using soy milk and the countdown brand plant based spread. You can’t tell the difference between the vegan and non-vegan version 🙂
Thank you for sharing one of your family favourites for other families to love x
justamumnz says
That is wonderful! Great those alternatives work too.
Karynne Thompson says
cooked this for pudding tonight and found that at 40 mins it was still pretty raw, ended up cooking for 55 mins to get the ‘knife will come out of cake clean once done’. Tasted lovely and heaps of sauce which is always a plus.
Ayesha says
I don’t know what I did wrong, mine came out like a soup? Maybe the water was too hot?
justamumnz says
Hmmm I’m not sure sorry, hot water is the correct thing to do. Sounds like something wasn’t quite right with either the cake ingredients or the liquid amount. Sorry to hear that!
Katie Jones says
Just Made this!! Turned out PERFECT! So good, time to munch on some yummy pudding 🙂
justamumnz says
Awesome Katie, I am so pleased you enjoyed it! The only problem with this recipe is you learn that it is way to easy to make! lol 🙂 Thanks for letting me know, have a look around the rest of the site and see what else you might like, Anna
Angie says
Is this recipe using plain or self-raising flour?
justamumnz says
Plain flour 🙂
Sam says
Can we use self raising flour if thats all we got
justamumnz says
Hi, yes give it a go! Just remove the baking powder too ?
shanalou18 says
These look super yummy! I’m definitely pinning it!
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bsymommonologues says
Nice, I bet taste delicious 🙂