Steamed Chocolate Pudding
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup soft brown sugar
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 1/2 cup self-raising flour (recommended: Wondra)
- Pinch salt
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons dark chocolate, chopped finely
- 5 tablespoons white chocolate, chopped finely
- 12 ounces bitter chocolate, preferably 64 percent
- 8 1/2 ounces unsalted butter
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- Special equipment: Terrine mold
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a bowl cream together butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, beat in the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift the flour, salt and cocoa powder into the creamed mixture and fold in with a metal spoon.
- Stir in the chopped chocolate until evenly combined.
- Lightly grease 6 individual pudding ramekins.
- Divide the prepared mixture evenly into the greased ramekins.
- Place the ramekins in a roasting pan.
- Pour boiling water into the roasting pan to come halfway up the side of the ramekins.
- Bake in preheated oven for 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the mixture comes out clean.
- Let rest them for a couple of minutes and remove from the ramekin.
- For the chocolate terrine:
- Melt together chocolate and butter and let it cool down slightly.
- When warm stir in 4 yolks.
- Sift sugar and cocoa powder and stir into the chocolate mixture gently.
- Whip heavy cream and egg whites to soft peak separately.
- Fold into the chocolate mixture and set it in a lined terrine mold.
- Refrigerate and use next day.
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Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/steamed-chocolate-pudding-recipe.html (may not work)