- Chocolate self-saucing pudding:-
Ingredients :
1 cup self-raising flour
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/2 cup brown sugar
80g butter, melted, cooled
1/2 cup milk
1 egg, lightly beaten
Thick cream and berries, to serve
Sauce :
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa powder, sifted
1 1/4 cups boiling water
Directions :
Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease an 8-cup capacity ovenproof baking dish. Sift flour and cocoa into a large bowl. Stir in sugar.
Combine butter, milk and egg in a jug. Slowly add to flour mixture, whisking until well combined and smooth. Spoon into baking dish. Smooth top.
Make sauce: Sprinkle combined sugar and cocoa over pudding.
Slowly pour boiling water over the back of a large metal spoon to cover pudding. Place dish onto a baking tray. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until pudding bounces back when pressed gently in centre. Serve hot with cream and berries.
- Raspberry & white chocolate waffle pudding:-
Ingredients :
480g (about 14) waffles
300g raspberries (fresh is best, but frozen are fine)
200g good-quality white chocolate, chopped
1/4 cup caster sugar
1 tablespoon plain flour
3 eggs
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
500ml (2 cups) thickened cream
2 tablespoons icing sugar, to dust
Directions :
Preheat the oven to 170°C. Butter a medium ovenproof dish. Cut waffles into 2cm cubes. Place half in the dish, topped by half the raspberries, then half the chocolate. Repeat layers. Whisk together sugar, flour, eggs, rind, vanilla and cream. Pour over waffles and set aside for 10 minutes.
Bake in the oven for 35 minutes until golden. Dust with icing sugar. Serve with cream or ice-cream.
- Caramel apple pudding:-
Ingredients :
5 large golden delicious or Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, sliced 1cm thick
1 2/3 cups (250g) plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
250g caster sugar
200ml milk
150g unsalted butter, melted
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup (200g) light muscovado sugar or light brown sugar
1/2 cup (125ml) golden syrup
Icing sugar and thick cream, to serve
Directions :
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Lightly butter a 2.5-litre baking dish.
Place apples in the prepared dish. Sift flour and baking powder into the bowl of an electric mixer, add caster sugar, milk, butter and egg, then beat until pale. Spread mixture over the apples.
Place muscovado or brown sugar, golden syrup and 300ml water in a saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves, then bring to the boil without stirring.
Pour over the pudding batter, then bake for 30-35 minutes or until the top is golden.
Dust with icing sugar and serve with cream.
- Citrus passionfruit delicious pudding:-
Ingredients :
60g butter, softened
3/4 cup caster sugar
2 eggs, separated
1 large lemon, rind finely grated, juiced
2 tablespoons passionfruit pulp
1 cup milk
1/4 cup plain flour
pure icing sugar, to serve
Directions :
Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 5cm deep, 15cm x 23cm (base), 6-cup capacity baking dish. Using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
Stir in lemon rind, 1/4 cup lemon juice, passionfruit and milk. Sift flour over mixture and stir until combined.
Using clean blades, beat eggwhites in a bowl until soft peaks form. Fold into passionfruit mixture until just combined.
Pour batter into baking dish. Place dish in a baking pan. Pour boiling water into pan so it comes halfway up sides of dish. Bake, uncovered, for 45 minutes or until pudding is just firm on top and light golden.
Remove dish from baking pan and stand for 5 minutes. Dust pudding with icing sugar and serve.
– Pratiksha Trivedi
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