Chocolate Up and Over Pudding

chocolate up and over pudding

chocolate up and over pudding

I blogged about this pudding/dessert years ago but I made it again recently and mentioned it to a friend who wanted the recipe, so here it is again. It doesn’t look fantastic in this photo but taste-wise it’s a winner.

This is a great recipe for those times when the whole family is asking – What’s for pudding? and you haven’t had time to think about it. All of the ingredients are what I would call ‘store cupboard essentials’, nothing fancy, but everybody loves it.

Chocolate Pudding

75g/3oz self-raising flour
1 rounded tablespoon of cocoa powder
125g/4oz soft margarine
125g/4oz granulated sugar
2 eggs

Topping and sauce

1 rounded tablespoon cocoa powder
125g/4oz demerara sugar
300 ml/ 1/2 pint hot, strong black coffee. Instant is fine – use 3 teaspoons added to the water.

Grease an oven proof dish of 2 pint capacity.

Put all of the pudding ingredients into a mixing bowl at the same time and with a wooden spoon or electric mixer, beat until smooth.

Tip the mixture into your greased dish and smooth flat.

Sprinkle 50g/2oz demerara sugar over the top.

Add the remaining 50g/2oz demerara sugar to the hot coffee and stir well. Carefully pour the coffee over the pudding mixture.

Bake at gas mark 4, 350 F, 180 C for about 50 minutes or an hour.

As if by magic the sponge rises over the coffee mixture during the cooking and a sauce is formed underneath.

It’s lovely served hot with ice-cream or cream.
It should serve 4 people.

12 thoughts on “Chocolate Up and Over Pudding

  1. I have a similar recipe for a lemon pudding that rises out of the sauce! It’s to die for. I also have one for chocolate pudding but as I’m not a lover of coffee I can’t see me trying yours! Sorry!

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