Steamed Chocolate Sussex Pond Pudding

Name: Steamed Chocolate Sussex Pond Pudding
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: 170 g/6 oz strong white flour and 1 tsp baking powder and 55 g/2 oz cocoa powder, sifted together; 1 lemon, thoroughly and deeply pricked all over with a fork or a skewer; 100 g/3½ oz caster sugar; 100 g/3½ oz unsalted cold butter, diced; 170 g/6 oz caster sugar; 55 g/2 oz dark chocolate, broken into tiny pieces; 2 tbsp milk; 2 eggs, lightly beaten; 85 g/3 oz butter

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

I adore the combination of chocolate and lemon especially with this pudding. The lemon makes a refreshing contrast to the dense chocolate; when you cut into this one you will see why. It is not for the faint hearted.

Ingredients

The Steamed Sponge

85 g/3 oz butter
55 g/2

Dessert
Summer
Winter
Vegetarian

Method

To make the steamed sponge

Butter and flour a 1.2 litre/2 pint pudding basin. Boil the kettle.

Melt the butter and chocolate together Sift flour baking powder and cocoa into a mixing bowl