Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Traditional British Pudding

The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet. I did not use suet as it is an animal product. I used a steamed chocolate pudding recipe from www.puddingclub.com. I made four baby puddings instead of one larger one. They weren't great plain but they were pretty great topped with some french vanilla ice cream and some chocolate sauce. The strawberries didn't hurt either. here is the converted recipe:

Steamed Chocolate Pudding

1/2 C Butter
1/2 C Castor (Powdered)Sugar
1/2 Self Rising Flour
2 Tbs Cocoa
2 Eggs
1/4 C Chocolate Chips

Cream the butter & sugar together until light and fluffy. Sift the flour and sugar together and add a little at a time along with the egg. Stir in half the chocolate chips. Place the remaining chocolate chips on the base of your greased (1.1 litre) pudding bowl. Add the dough. Steam for 1 1/2 hours. Turn out and serve with chocolate sauce, custard, or extra thick (whatever that is!).

See steaming method below...


Here are my ramekins wrapped in aluminum foil and secured with rubber bands. I steamed them in a large pot with a steamer basket but you could easily use a crock pot. I used tongs to remove them when they were done as they were very hot. I cooked them for the full hour and a half even though they were smaller.







21 comments:

  1. You made those puddings look real fancy! Sounds great!

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  2. The pudding with ice cream on top and the strawberries look superyummy! Can't wait until strawberries are in season here!

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  3. Your puddings look so great! I love the chocolate stripping on the ice cream. Nice job on the challenge. You can never go wrong with chocolate!

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  4. that looks delicious. my puddings took so long to steam i got frustrated, the smaller ramekin size seems like it makes it so much more manageable! yum

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  5. Pure Chocolate Bliss! Beautiful photography too!!

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  6. Looks absolutely gorguous and yummie!! I'll save the recipe!! Greetings from Spain! Lara

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  7. I did not make this challenge, as I did not feel at ease with it, but your pudding is very nice ! Always nice pictures here :D
    Nice to read that you did not use Suet (Blurp)

    Congrats'

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  8. Your pudding looks so decadent and delicious! Great job on the challenge!

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  9. Your puddings look gorgeous with the ice cream and chocolate sauce--nicely done!

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  10. You can't go wrong with chocolate! It looks delicious! Love your photos too BTW:)

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  11. Your photos are marvelous! Nicely done pudding! I loved finding out about You Capture when I read more of your blog. It sounds like a lot of fun...except I think I may need to have a baby first? :-) Oh well...

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  12. Wonderful effort and the plating looks beautiful great work on this challenge. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.

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  13. Great job! I think I'm going to try the individual puddings the next time I make them. They are so cute!

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  14. What a beautiful pudding Kriten. I like the idea of serving it with ice cream. Look more appealing to me. Well done on this month challenge.

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  15. oh wow, great pictures! what a great way to enjoy chocolate pudding-- with icecream and strawberries! This looks delicious, now i wish i made a sweet pudding instead.

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  16. How fun that you made baby puddings. The picture is really beautiful.

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  17. Your pudding looks beautiful. That ice-cream is a great addition.

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  18. Delicious presentation! Great job :)

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  19. ohhh, now i'm hungry
    it looks so good

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  20. Beautiful! Its calling me to dip my spoon in.

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