Equipment
- Oven
- 1 Baking Dish
- 1 Sauce Pan
- Mixing Bowls
- Whisk
- Mesh Strainer
- Large Spoon
- knife
- Cutting Board
- Measuring Cups and Spoons
Ingredients
For the pudding:
- 225 g unsalted butter
- 300 g caster sugar
- 4 eggs lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 75 g plain flour
- 50 g cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 100 g Butlers 70% Dark Chocolate Bar roughly chopped into large chunks
- 2 x 410g tins canned pear halves in juice, drained
- 50 g flaked almonds
For the sauce:
- 125 ml double cream
- 4 Butlers Hot Chocolate Drink portions
Optional: vanilla ice cream to serve
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 190°C/170°C fan/gas 5.
- Grease an oven-proof dish, approx. 20cm x 30cm, with 25g of butter. Set aside.
- Place the remaining butter in a large saucepan and melt over low heat.
- Remove from the heat, then add the sugar and stir until thoroughly combined.
- Leave to cool slightly, about 10 minutes, and then slowly pour in the beaten eggs while mixing with a whisk to combine.
- Stir in vanilla extract.
- Sift flour, cocoa and salt over the butter mixture, then whisk in until thoroughly combined.
- Fold in the chocolate chunks.
- Pour batter into the prepared dish, then arrange pear halves on top, pushing them into the batter.
- Sprinkle with flaked almonds, then bake in a preheated oven for about 28-30 minutes, until pudding has a crust over the surface, but is still soft and sticky inside. While the pudding is baking, prepare the chocolate sauce.
- Pour cream into a small saucepan and add the Butlers Hot Chocolate Drink portions.
- Heat over medium heat until the chocolate has melted into the cream, stirring gently to make sure the bottom doesn't burn and to help mix the sauce.
- Once ready, pour the sauce into a small serving jug. If you prefer a thicker sauce, you can refrigerate it to help thicken faster - it will thicken the longer it cools.
- Once the pudding has baked, remove from the oven and leave to stand for about 5 minutes. Serve pudding while still hot with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream and a generous drizzle of chocolate sauce