Recipes: Chocolate puds with warm choc sauce

An indulgent pud with an extra hit of chocolate in the rich sauce

• 85g self-raising flour , sifted together with ½ tsp baking powder
• 40g cocoa
• 40g ground almonds
• 125g butter , softened
• 100g golden caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 100g dark chocolate
• 170ml double cream

  

  1. Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Mix the flour, cocoa and almonds. Cream the butter and sugar, then add the eggs and flour mix, plus 1 tbsp water. Fold everything together. Spoon into 6 150ml pudding moulds, put in a roasting tin with 1 cm boiling water, cover the lot with foil and bake for 25-30 minutes or until risen and cooked through.
  2. Make the sauce by melting the dark chocolate with the double cream in a bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water. Serve the puds with the warm sauce poured over.

  Per serving

  526 kcalories, protein 7,1g, carbohydrate 23,2g, fat 45,6 g, saturated fat 23,5g, fibre 2,7g, salt 0,67 g