Tuesday, 9 October 2007

Squidgy Chocolate Pudding

100g  dark chocolate
5 tbsp unsalted butter
2 extra large eggs
1 extra large egg yolk
3 tbsp caster sugar
3 tbsp plain flour
2 tsp cocoa powder

Serves: 4
Preparation Time: 25 minutes plus 1 hour in the fridge.

Melt the butter and the chocolate in a bain-marie.  Meanwhile, cream the eggs, egg yolk, and caster sugar in a bowl.  Add the melted chocolate and butter and mix until smooth.  Sift in the cocoa powder and flour and fold into the mixture.

Grease the insides of 4 ramekins with butter and spoon in the mixture.  Leave them in the fridge for at least an hour until they have cooled.  Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees.  Place the ramekins in a baking dish and add enough water to come about half way up the side of the ramekin.  Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.

Turn each pudding on to a place dust with icing sugar and cut open so the chocolate centre oozes out.  Serve with a blob of vanilla ice cream.

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