There's a fly in my soup!: Magic Chocolate Mud Pudding

Sunday comes and you are wondering what desert to make for lunch or dinner. You’re thinking ice cream and chocolate sauce... Perhaps a bit too simplistic? Maybe you’re up for something more adventurous like a soufflé or a caramel flan? …You’re way too lazy so you skip that idea… You wreck your brain and end up deciding on having just coffee… You quickly abandon that brain fart of an idea because who wants JUST coffee after a nice hearty lunch or dinner? What to make, what to make?

After spending the whole day preparing lunch or dinner who wants to devote four more hours cooking up a desert? Sometimes the most simplistic, quick and easy deserts are the most delicious and successful.

Next time you are brain storming on what desert to make for after a ravaging feast, give this amazing Magic Chocolate Mud Pudding a try! It’s quick, easy and most importantly cheap to make! I promise you everybody will love it! It’s a sweet, sticky, gooey, warm chocolatey goodness that will melt any mother-in-law’s or even an angry girlfriend’s frigid disposition any day!

Here’s how!

Ingredients:

Serves 4

50g/2oz/4 tbsp butter, plus extra for greasing
90g/3½oz/ scant 1 cup self-rising flour
5ml/1 tsp ground cinnamon
75ml/5 tbsp cocoa powder
200g/7oz/generous 1 cup light brown sugar
475ml/16fl oz/2 cups milk

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/Gas 4. Prepare the dish: use the extra butter to grease a 1.5 litre/2½ pint/6¼ cup oven proof dish. Place the dish on a baking sheet and set aside.

2. Sift together the flour and cinnamon with 15ml/1 tbsp of the cocoa. Mix well.

3. Gently heat the butter, 115g/4oz/½ cup of the sugar and 150ml/¼ pint/ 2/3 cup of the milk. When the butter has melted and all the sugar dissolved, remove the pan from the heat.