Vegan Self-Saucing Chocolate Pudding
Vegan self-saucing chocolate pudding - This vegan version of the classic dessert is quick and easy to make. It is baked in one dish and magically forms a moist chocolate sponge with a rich, gooey chocolate sauce underneath. This pudding is sure to be a real crowd pleaser!
Servings 6 people
Ingredients
Sauce:
- 180 g (1 cup) light brown soft sugar
- 45 g (½ cup) cocoa powder
- 325 ml (1 + ⅓ cups) boiling water
Batter:
- 170 g (1 + ⅓ cups + 1 Tablespoon) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 30 g (⅓ cup) cocoa powder
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon instant espresso powder (optional)
- 80 g (¼ cup + 2 Tablespoons) caster or granulated sugar
- pinch salt
- 160 ml (⅔ cup) unsweetened non-dairy milk (I use soy)
- 60 g (¼ cup) vegan butter melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/350°F/gas mark 4. Grease an approx 20 x 24 cm baking dish.
- Mix together the light brown soft sugar and the cocoa powder for the sauce, set aside.
- To make the sponge batter, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and espresso powder in a bowl. Stir in the caster sugar and a pinch of salt.
- Whisk together the milk, melted butter and vanilla extract.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir to form a smooth, thick batter.
- Scrape the batter into the prepared baking dish and spread it level.
- Sprinkle the sugar cocoa powder mixture evenly over the top. Gently smooth it out with the back of a spoon if needed.
- Gently drizzle the boiling water over the back of a spoon over the top of the pudding. Do not stir it in.
- Bake for 30 minutes until the cake is set and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake section only comes out clean. (If you go too deep you will hit sauce).
- Allow to cool for 5-10 minutes before serving straight from the dish.
Notes
- See post above for tips, details and step-by-step photos.
- All of my recipes are developed using grams, and as with all of my baking recipes I really do recommend using the metric measurements with a digital scale rather than the cup conversions. Cups are a wildly inaccurate measuring system and you will get far better, more consistent results using a scale, not to mention that it is also easier and less messy than cups!