CHOCOLATE PUDDING PERFECTION
1 cup margarine melted
½ cup castor sugar
1 cup cocoa powder
3 cups cake flour
3 jumbo eggs
1½ cups boiled water
1½ tablespoons baking powder
pinch of salt
5 ml vanilla essence
cocoa powder for the bottom of the baking tray
Put your oven on 180 ºCelsius.
In a mixing bowl cream the melted margarine and the castor sugar, add the vanilla essence and the cocoa powder and mix well.
Mix in the eggs and add the boiling water, flour, baking powder and salt.
Mix well till you see no lumps and it is well mixed.
Sprinkle the baking tray with the cocoa powder.
Add the dough to the baking tray and place in the oven for 30min. the texture must be crumbly but soft and moist.
After baking poke some holes all over the pudding while it’s still hot and pour the rich chocolate sauce over it.
Let it stand a little just for few minutes.
Serve with the chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream.
Rich Chocolate Sauce
240 ml cocoa powder
3 cups boiling water
180 ml icing sugar
Add the boiling water to the cocoa powder in a jug and mix well so that there is no lumps.
Add the icing sugar and also mix well.
After all the ingredients is mixed in, pour over the chocolate pudding after holes have been poked all over the pudding.
If there is chocolate sauce over it can be served with vanilla ice cream!
Simply delicious!
It is very rich and bitter but no nasty after taste! You are gone go back for more!
Recipe and photo: Kristie Townsend
