Marcus Wareing's chocolate pudding recipe includes Cointreau for a little bit of magic. These puddings are a hugely impressive dessert for a dinner party, and perfect for any chocolate lover among your guests

Chocolate pudding recipe

Dessert

Easy

35 minutes

4

Method
1.
Preheat the oven to 180ºC/Gas mark 4 and grease 4 ramekins
2.
Cream the butter and sugar together, and then add the eggs, orange juice and zest. Mix the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder together and then fold this into the butter mixture
3.
Divide the mixture evenly between the ramekins
4.
For the sauce, mix the cocoa powder and brown sugar together and sprinkle over the ramekins
5.
Pour 100ml boiling water over the mixture in each ramekin, and then place the ramekins into the oven for 10-15 minutes. Add the Cointreau evenly to the ramekins, then bake for a further 5 minutes
6.
Serve with a large dollop of vanilla ice-cream
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Ingredients

Puddings

  • 100g of unsalted butter, softened plus extra for greasing
  • 150g of caster sugar
  • 2 free-range eggs
  • 2 oranges, zested and juiced
  • 175g of plain flour
  • 2 tsp of baking powder
  • 2 tbsp of cocoa powder

Sauce

  • 6 tbsp of cocoa powder
  • 100g of soft brown sugar
  • 400ml of water, boiling
  • 30ml of Cointreau

To plate

  • 1 tub of vanilla ice cream

Equipment

  1. 4 ramekins

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