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    Home » Recipes » Dessert » Pudding

    Very Chocolate Pudding

    Published by Melissa on April 27, 2010 | Updated June 15, 2022 | 77 Comments

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    The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet.

    The two basic types of British puddings are a suet crust pudding with a filling or a suet sponge pudding. Examples of a pudding with a crust are a steak and kidney pudding or a Sussex pond pudding and examples of the sponge pudding are spotted dick, Christmas pudding and college pudding.

    Well, I wasn’t very daring this month and you won’t find any suet in this post. In case you’re wondering, suet is the hard but flaky fat found on the inside of a cow or sheep around the kidneys and that area of the body. Did I hear you say Ewwwwwww. No, that was probably me. I told you, I wasn’t very daring this month.

    Luckily we were allowed to use substitutes for the suet in our British puddings and even better, we were allowed to make a savory or a sweet version. If you’ve visited my blog much you’ll know that, of course, I picked the sweet version.

    I picked a rich, fudgey, lick-your-plate-clean, Very Chocolate Pudding from the very British Pudding Club website made with butter. They recommended serving it with a sauce and I thought since there was so much chocolate going on that a Creme Anglaise sauce would be perfect and it was.

    I added the strawberry just for the picture, but after I had a bite of strawberry and a bite of Chocolate Pudding with Creme Anglaise sauce all at the same time, I decided it was a fabulous combination and diced up some strawberries to serve with the pudding.

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    This pudding reminded me of molten lava cakes that are so popular now, only without a liquid chocolate center. It had a very soft almost gooey texture in the middle – perhaps I should have steamed it longer, but it set up more after it cooled and everyone loved it. Did I mention I licked my plate clean.

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    Steamed British Chocolate Pudding

    Prep Time20 mins
    Cook Time1 hr 30 mins
    Servings: 6
    Calories: 2026kcal
    Author: Barbara Bakes
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    Ingredients

    • ½ cup unsalted butter softened
    • ½ cup granulated sugar
    • 1 cup all purpose flour
    • ¼ cup cocoa
    • 1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • 2 eggs beaten
    • ⅓ cup chocolate chips

    Instructions

    • Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Sift the flour and cocoa together and add to the creamed mixture with the egg, a little at a time, beating well between each addition. Finally, stir in half the chocolate chips. Place the remaining chocolate chips in a greased 1.5 quart pudding bowl before adding the mixture. Steam for 1 ½ hours. Turn out and serve with, inevitably, Chocolate Sauce. Custard or Extra Thick are also wonderful with this pudding.
    • I followed the recipe for Creme Anglaise on Cafe Lynnylu, except I substituted vanilla bean paste.
    • Visit the Daring Kitchen Recipe Achieve for the recipes and (tips on steaming) and the Daring Bakers Blogroll to see the wide variety of British Puddings other Daring Bakers created. Thanks Esther for helping take me out of my comfort zone and learning to bake with steam.

    Notes

    Steamed puddings are generally steamed in a pudding bowl which is covered with waxed paper and foil and tied with kitchen string. The pudding is lowered into simmering water which should come halfway up the sides of the bowl. The bowl sits on a trivet, scrunched foil or even a folded tea towel in the pot so it does not come into contact with the direct heat. The pot is covered with the lid and the pudding allowed to steam as required. Do not let the pot boil dry. You can also steam in a crockpot or a steamer.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 6g | Calories: 2026kcal | Carbohydrates: 235g | Protein: 29g | Fat: 116g | Saturated Fat: 70g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 28g | Trans Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 583mg | Sodium: 1271mg | Potassium: 612mg | Fiber: 11g | Sugar: 123g | Vitamin A: 3312IU | Calcium: 418mg | Iron: 11mg

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    1. Kitchen Butterfly

      May 08, 2010 at 4:35 pm

      I love that chocolate pudding, perfect with the strawberries! Yummy

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    2. msmeanie

      May 06, 2010 at 9:47 pm

      I am so regretting not doing this DB challenge. Your pudding looks fabulous and if you say it was like a lava cake then I bet it was delicious too. I would have licked my plate too!

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    3. Mary

      May 03, 2010 at 10:39 pm

      WOW! This looks fabulous! Yummm!!!

      xxMK

      http://delightfulbitefuls.blogspot.com/

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    4. ♥Sugar♥Plum♥Fairy♥

      May 02, 2010 at 2:00 pm

      Your chocolate My Fair lady pudding sure is gorgeous!!!

      Am also here to tell u something interesting!!!
      SUper giveaway at this link…psst psst, am sure u love LE CRUESET ,dont ya?
      Well its jus one of the goodies u can chose:-))))

      http://brightmorningstarsfoodie.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-1st-sunshine-giveaway-thanxxx-aton.html

      Reply
    5. Anita

      May 02, 2010 at 11:35 am

      Yum! I was tossing up between chocolate or butterscotch puddings. Your one looks great Barbara!

      Reply
    6. pierre

      May 02, 2010 at 11:27 am

      hi barbara I am in awe in front of your cake!! Pierre de Paris

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    7. Yummita

      May 01, 2010 at 7:59 pm

      Hi, I made suet Sussex Pond, and it was not too good. Next time I'd use butter just like you did. I'm glad you like it 🙂

      Cheers
      Yummita

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    8. Sarah, Maison Cupcake

      April 30, 2010 at 9:42 pm

      I'm really starting to wish I'd done this challenge now, I had steak and kidney pudding stuck in my head and didn't think about steamed sponges. Yours is the first chocolate one I've come across, it looks marvellous, especially with custard.

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    9. Jill @ Jillicious Discoveries

      April 30, 2010 at 2:51 am

      I love the chocolate pudding idea, especially with the creme anglaise sauce! It looks so delicious!! 🙂

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    10. Natalie...

      April 29, 2010 at 4:54 pm

      Oooh wow this chocolate pudding looks like absolute heaven. I wish id participated in this months challenge now :(.

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    11. Apu

      April 29, 2010 at 2:38 pm

      This looks so yummy!! I plan to make chocolate pudding next time round.

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    12. azelia

      April 29, 2010 at 1:48 pm

      The way I see the photo of the cake baked it doesn't look like you've underbaked for today's modern taste…as long as it holds its own shape to turn out from the mold the best solution is what you've ended with…slightly gooey centre..

      In the "Olden Days" as my daughters' like to refer to everything including steamed puddings were baked/steamed/cooked to an inch of its life!!

      We don't go for overcooked fish, falling apart soggy vegetables, dry meat or overbaked dry cakes/puddings.

      The only exception I can think of right now is a pastry shell should never be underbaked…raw pastry is not nice…

      Your pudding looks perfectly gooey and lush…

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    13. Aparna

      April 29, 2010 at 8:45 am

      It does indeed look very chocolatey. I have to try an all chocolate version next.

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    14. theUngourmet

      April 29, 2010 at 5:29 am

      I really want to try making this pudding sometime. I'd leave out the suet as well. Icky! ;)Chocolate is the perfect flavor and I'd be licking my plate clean for sure as well!

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    15. crumbsoflove

      April 28, 2010 at 10:42 pm

      Looks great. I was very tempted by that recipe as well- I'm sorry I didn't try it myself!

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    16. chef_d

      April 28, 2010 at 6:49 pm

      Oh looks so good! I would have licked my plate clean too!

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    17. Cookin' Canuck

      April 28, 2010 at 6:23 pm

      This sounds delicious, Barbara! Well done on making a version that would appeal to you and your family more than the suet (though suet really does add a good flavor).

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