This rich, heavy pudding tastes a bit like those morish melt in the middle puds that M&S so cleverly seduced us with. Obviously those are not vegan, so for the last year I’ve been wondering how I might get my gooey, fudgey fix. And by jove I think I may have done it.
I veganised this dish from a recipe in Easy Cooking magazine. When checking out non vegan cook books I tend to go along the lines, that a recipe without eggs can be easily veganised using sunflower margarine and soya milk. And this certainly proves the case. The original recipe called for more sugar but I felt this would be too sweet and I think I was right. It also took double the time to cook which was odd and a little frustrating but now I know it takes over an hour, I’ll be prepared next time. Have a go and let me know how you get on. Serves 6.
Ingredients
- 140g plain flour
- 6tsp cocoa
- 175g caster sugar
- pinch salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 25g marge
- 150ml milk
- 100g plain chocolate chopped
- 100 dark brown sugar
- 400ml hot water
Instructions
- Grease a 1ltr oven proof dish.
- In a bowl, sift the flour, 2tbsp of cocoa, caster sugar and salt.
- Add vanilla, marge and milk. Beat well in a mixer to get some air into it.
- Add the chopped chocolate.
- Spoon mixture into dish.
- In a separate bowl mix the dark brown sugar with the rest of the cocoa power (4tsp).
- Sprinkle this on top of the mixture in the bowl.
- Pour over the 400ml of hot water.
- Cook at 160 for at least an hour until all the water has been absorbed and turned into a gooey fudgy sauce.
- Eat hot. Serve with soya cream or vegan ice cream.