Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding (with Apricots)

[CreamPuff63]

I know I have already posted a similar recipe on this forum - but this one has apricots!

Ingredients:
140g Turkish apricots
65g butter, softened
115g caster sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
75g Self Raising flour
10g cocoa
40g milk

Sauce:
½ cup brown sugar (90g)
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 cup boiling water (250g)


Preparation:
Preheat oven 180^oC. Grease ovenproof dish.

1.   Chop apricots in TM bowl 10 secs, Speed 5. Set aside
2.   Insert Butterfly. Cream butter and sugar 3 mins, Speed 4. Scraping sides of bowl occasionally.
3.   Add eggs and vanilla essence. Mix for 30 secs, Speed 3. Scrape sides of bowl.
4.   Add flour, cocoa and milk and mix 30 secs, Speed 3.
5.   Add apricots, 10 secs, Speed 2. Spoon into ovenproof dish.
6.   Mix sauce ingredients together until sugar is dissolved and pour carefully over the rounded side of a big spoon over the pudding mixture.
7.   Bake in oven 45 – 50 mins.
8.   Serve warm with cream or icecream, or even custard.


(Photo's: too many people hanging around waiting for it to come out of the oven to snap a photo  next time...maybe)

Source:  Sunbeam Turkish apricots packet.

[judydawn]

Chocolate AND apricots - yum!

[cookie1]

My type of recipe CP63.

[Thermomixer]

Thanks CP63 - can never have too many variations upon a theme    good to see you read the recipes on the packet 

[zebraa]

you could prob steam this in the varoma too. Looks lovely - thanks

[Thermomixer]

I think that it should work well in the Varoma - just need to cover with some absorbent paper * then foil? to stop the drips, or even individual ones - thinking zebraa