Chocoholics Chocolate Pudding

Great recipe, very simple to make and tastes too good to share with the kids! From Marie Claire cookbook, tried and tested and confirm tastes delicious. Well worth a try and uses only simple ingredients that we all have in our cupboards.

You will need:-

60g unsweetened cocoa powder
90g soft brown sugar
2 eggs
150g castor sugar
50g butter
100g dark chocolate
125ml milk
125g self raising flour
cream or custard to serve

In a large jug mix together 40g of the cocoa powder, brown sugar (I used castor sugar as didn't have brown and it turned out fine) with 300ml of boiling water.

In a large bowl mix together the caster sugar and eggs.

In a small saucepan add the chocolate, milk and butter and heat gently until all have dissolved and leave to cool slightly.

Add the flour and remaining cocoa powder to the egg and sugar mix and mix together, stir in the melted chocolate, mix well.

Pour into either one large deep dish or individual ramekins. Spoon over the cocoa water mixture.

Bake for 30 minutes or until firm to touch.

Serve with cream or if you want to be very naughty you could top with melted Mars Bar mixed with a little cream, or even chocolate custard for the chocoholics.

Enjoy, tastes so good!!!

Cheeky Dessert

Great simple recipe for festive dessert for adults!

You will need: vanilla ice cream, amaretto biscuits and Baileys

For each serving place 3 scoops of vanilla ice cream in a small dessert bowl, crush 2 amaretto biscuits and sprinkle over ice cream, finally pour over 2 tablespoons of Baileys and serve.

Extremely Fattening Chocolate Sauce

A really simple recipe for 'cheats' chocolate sauce, great with ice cream, cheesecake, pies

Take two Mars Bars, slice and put into microwave proof bowl, microwave on full power for 1 minute or until Mars Bars have melted then remove from microwave and add 200ml of single cream, stir well to mix together. Pour over dessert and enjoy.

Rich Chocolate Glaze

A yummy cake covering, perfect to cover any sponge cake or could even be used as a chocolate sauce for ice cream

Break up 1 175g bar of dark chocolate and place in small pan, add 1/4 pint of single cream and 1/2 teaspoon of instant coffee. Over a low heat melt the chocolate, stirring continuously to mix in the cream and coffee, when all the chocolate has melted remove from heat and pour over the cake, smoothing over the top and sides.

Slightly Overcooked Lemon Pie

This is a photo of my recipe for ex mother-in-law's lemon pie which I baked last night, my version is baked in the oven but last night I left it a bit too long and the result was more of a cake. However, it tasted great with vanilla ice cream!

The version my ex mother-in-law makes is not cooked in the oven but left to chill in the fridge, she also makes a deeper pie in a larger dish by using 2 tins of condensed milk.

Refer to my recipe for ex mother-in-law's lemon pie for ingredients and instructions on how to make it. This can be found in Archive for July 2008.

Cheats Trifle

This is an easy way to prepare a semi traditional trifle, it also tastes great, I recommend everyone try it.

You will need:-

1 McVitie's Jamaica Ginger Cake, thickly sliced
1 small tin of fruit salad or fruit of your choice
1 carton of ready made jelly (any flavour)
1 tin of Ambrosia custard
1 250ml carton of Thick Devon Cream

To make the trifle:-

You will need a deep serving dish

Put into the dish the sliced cake, covering the bottom of the dish. On top of this pour over the fruit salad together with juice from tin. Cover this with the ready made jelly, you will have to spoon small portions over the fruit salad trying to make sure it is evenly divided. Then you pour over the tin of custard, spread out evenly. Finally pour over the cream ensuring that the top of the trifle is covered (I found using thick Devon cream that it does not require whipping as it is already thick enough).

Approximate time to create this masterpiece is 2 minutes, looks and tastes great. Enjoy.

Ex Mother-In-Law's Lemon Pie

My ex mother-in-law had lots of weird and wonderful concoctions and this was one of the better ones, a nice dessert for any occasion

Things you will need:-
8" Flan or pie dish
1 450g tin of condensed milk
1 large egg, beaten
1 lemon (juice only but you may want to add some zest to give it extra zip)
1 packet of Marie biscuits (if you can't get hold of these then digestive or nice will do)
2oz low fat margarine or butter (melted)

Step 1
Crush all the biscuits in a large bowl then add the melted butter, mix well and put butter biscuit mix in flan or pie dish and smooth out to cover bottom of dish, firm down with the back of a spoon.

Step 2
Mix together the condensed milk, beaten egg and juice from the lemon (if you want to use zest you can add it to mixture at this point or alternatively sprinkle over top at end).

Step 3
Pour condensed milk mixture into flan base you now have two options, you can either put the pie in the fridge and leave to chill for an hour or so, or if you prefer a firmer pie you can put it into an oven on medium heat (gas mark 4) and cook for 30 minutes

Step 4
Eat and enjoy!

For a deeper pie or if using an 11" flan dish you need to double up the condensed milk and add another egg, ingredients for base will remain the same.