Melting Chcolate Pudding

The Ultimate Chocolate Indulgence

Ingredients

• 150g self-raising flour
• 4 tbsp cocoa powder
• 50g ground almonds
• 100g dark chocolate , roughly chopped
• 200g caster sugar
• 175ml milk
• 50g butter , melted
• 1 egg
• SAUCE
• 150g dark muscovado sugar
• 3 tbsp cocoa powder

Instructions

STEP 1:

To make the chocolate sponge pudding, heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Mix the flour, cocoa powder, ground almonds, chocolate and sugar together. Then stir the milk, butter and egg together and mix into the dry ingredients. Spoon into 6 individual ramekins or ovenproof dishes.

STEP 2:

To make the sauce, mix the sugar and cocoa powder and gradually stir in 300ml boiling water. Spoon this over the sponge mixture.

STEP 3:

Bake the puddings for 20 minutes. Lower the oven temperature to 170C/fan 150C/gas 3 and cook for a further 10 minutes until the sponge feels firm to the touch – the sauce will be lurking underneath. Serve straight from the oven with cream.