Cocoa Brownie Pudding
An easy and delicious dessert to bake in under 30 mins. You need flour, cocoa powder, egg, butter, sugar and little salt to balance it. Crackle top crust, gooey chocolate center and brownie texture sides.
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Whisk
- Rubber spatula
- Shallow soup
- Large Baking tray
Ingredients
- 50 gm salted butter
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp flour
Opitonal:
- 1 tsp vanilla
- sea salt flakes
Serve with:
- vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160℃, get a shallow soup bowl around 6-7 inches in diameter and a larger oven proof tray for it to sit in. Set aside.
- Melt the butter in a microwave or over the stove and if you are feeling fancy you can brown it over the stove.
- In a mixing bowl add the egg and sugar. We need to whisk this for 5-6 minutes continuously until the sugar is almost dissolved, the mixture has doubled in volume, it has become pale and creamy. It is called ribbon consistency.
- Sift over the cocoa powder and flour, fold into the egg mixture until just combined. Pour in the melted butter and fold again, DO NOT OVER MIX.
- Pour the batter into the shallow soup bowl, place it in the large one tray and fill it with hot water (half way). Bake for 15-18 mins, until the top has set and a tooth pick inserted into the center comes out with wet, sticky, jammy crumbs. We don’t want the tooth pick clean, if its clean - you have over baked it.
- Serve it warm with a dusting of cocoa powder and scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Notes
- Check out the write up above on how to make this over the stove.
- Whisk the egg and sugar really well, this gives you that crusty shiny crackle top.
- Fold the dry ingredients and melted butter into the batter gently using a spatula. Do not over work it.
- Do not over bake this pudding as it will continue to set in the residual heat from the bowl once baked.
- The baking time will vary depending on the size of the baking dish. The wider the bowl the lesser time it will take to bake, the smaller the bowl the longer it will take to bake. I baked this pudding in an 8inch shallow soup bowl making a very thin layered pudding hence it was ready in 15 mins.