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Chocolate Fondant Puddings

These delightfully sinful, hot, oozy chocolate puddings are the ultimate indulgence.

Preparation time:
25 minutes
Cooking time:
14 minutes to 16 minutes
Total time:
39 minutes to 41 minutes 45 minutes
Serves:
 4

Ingredients

  • 125g butter, plus extra for greasing
  • 25g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
  • 200g good-quality dark chocolate, such as Valrhona Caraïbe, chopped
  • 2 eggs, plus 2 yolks
  • 100g caster sugar

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Evenly brush individual metal pudding moulds (175ml) with butter. Evenly coat the buttered moulds with flour, tapping off any excess. Transfer the prepared moulds to a baking sheet.
  2. Place the chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water, making sure the bowl does not touch the surface. Once melted, stir until smooth. Take the bowl off the pan to allow the chocolate to cool slightly.
  3. Place the eggs and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Using an electric whisk, beat on high for minutes or until very thick, pale and fluffy. Fold the cooled chocolate mixture into the eggs and sugar. Sift in the flour and gently fold it in.
  4. Divide the mixture equally between the prepared pudding moulds. Place in the oven for 14-16 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside for 2 minutes. Using a tea towel, invert onto plates and carefully remove the moulds. Serve immediately with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a good glug of double cream.

Cook's tips

The pudding moulds can be buttered and floured up to a day ahead and then refrigerated until needed. Watch how to melt the chocolate using a bain-marie pan, also known as a double boiler, at waitrose.com/melt

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ladymuck64

ladymuck64 02 February 2010 14:57

excellent recipe, made it for xmas dessert and was thouroughly enjoyed by all, i greased moulds with butter and a small greasproof circle at the bottom, also i cooked for a few minutes longer but they were gorgeous

Beeton-in-training

Beeton-in-training 23 February 2009 15:30

I used this recipe after a failed attempt with a famous chef's recipe. Was thrilled when my first pudding turned out picture-perfect! (Although I took too long to get the other 3 out - messing about with plates and icecream etc. - and they lost the molten middle - but they were still delicious.) Note - I used cocoa powder instead of flour to dust the ramekins. Also had to cook the puddings for a few extra minutes as they weren't ready at 16 mins.

Quadruped

Quadruped 21 December 2007 18:36

A really good receipe, simple and effective. My only problem was getting the puddings out of the ramekins..... not enough butter. But I was beating the family off with a stick they liked them so much. Use a reasonably good chocolate, not Bourneville, and you can't go wrong. I had used another recipe in the book 'The Best', from BBC TV, much more complicated and no better.

Galley_slave

Galley_slave 29 September 2007 16:57

Not for the faint hearted, this is one for chocolate lovers and is so simple! Results were perfect and exactly like the picture, although I did give them a dusting of cocoa powder. I will certainly use it again.

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Nutritional Info

Typical values per serving:
Energy 735.0kcal
Sugars 40.6g
Fat 56.0g
Saturated Fat 33.1g
Salt 0.8g

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This recipe was first published on Waitrose.com in September 2007