Dum’s chocolate pudding

Name: Dum’s chocolate pudding
Yield: Serves 6-8
Cuisine: Peruvian
Ingredients: ½ level teaspoon cream of tartar; 25 g plain flour; 100 g golden caster sugar; 4 large free-range eggs, separated; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 150 ml warm water; 150 g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing; 150 g dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa solids)

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Orchards in the Oasis

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 2010

About

Everyone in Lima knew, or knew about Dum Tweedie, and some had been lucky enough to taste his chocolate pudding. It has a featherlight texture with a gooey base, and is rich but not sickly. A treat for chocoholics everywhere, it is equally good hot or cold. Serve with a bowl of crème fraîche.

Ingredients

150 g dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa solids)
150 g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing

Americas
Peru
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Turn on the oven to 200°C/Gas 6. Half-fill a roasting pan with water and place on the centre shelf of the oven to warm up. Butter a 1.5-1.75 litre ovenproof dish.

Break the chocolate into small pieces, cut up the butter and put both into a bowl set over a pan of very hot but not boiling water. Stir until melted and smooth. Remove from the heat and gradually stir in the warm water follow