Steamed Chocolate and Prune Puddings

Name: Steamed Chocolate and Prune Puddings
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 300 ml/1½ pint milk; 115 g/4 oz dark chocolate, broken in pieces; 55 g/1 oz caster sugar; 2 eggs; 55 g/1 oz self raising flour; 2 tbsp brandy; 55 g/1 oz unsalted butter; 115 g/4 oz prunes, stoned and roughly chopped

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

This is a recipe from food and wine writer, Hugo Arnold.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz prunes, stoned and roughly chopped
2 tbsp brandy

Dessert
Summer
Winter
Microwave
Vegetarian

Method

Soak the prunes in the brandy for at least 20 minutes. (You can speed up this process by heating gently in a microwave and leave to stand for 5 minutes.)

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas 6. Boil the kettle for a bain marie. Butter 6 dariole moulds or ramekins.

Melt t