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

  1. Grease a 1ltr oven proof dish.
  2. In a bowl, sift the flour, 2tbsp of cocoa, caster sugar and salt.
  3. Add vanilla, marge and milk. Beat well in a mixer to get some air into it.
  4. Add the chopped chocolate.
  5. Spoon mixture into dish.
  6. In a separate bowl mix the dark brown sugar with the rest of the cocoa power (4tsp).
  7. Sprinkle this on top of the mixture in the bowl.
  8. Pour over the 400ml of hot water.
  9. Cook at 160 for at least an hour until all the water has been absorbed and turned into a gooey fudgy sauce.
  10. Eat hot. Serve with soya cream or vegan ice cream.

Results

Delicious! This was a real hit today. My brother and sister in law loved it too. It's quite heavy though and you don't need much. Don't say I didn't warn you. Would I do again. Hell yes.

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