Recipes
Steamed chocolate puddings
20 minutes
Preparation time
40 minutes
Cooking time
6
Serves
Ingredients
Steamed chocolate pudding
2 eggs
100 g unsalted butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
50 g caster sugar
50 g brown sugar
105 g self-raising flour, sieved
Pinch salt flakes
100 g good quality dark couverture chocolate 54%
60 ml cooking cream
150 g good quality milk couverture chocolate 33%
Chocolate fudge sauce
200 ml cooking cream
30 ml golden syrup
150 g good quality milk couverture chocolate 33%
Finishing
Punnet fresh raspberries
Method
Steamed chocolate pudding
- Place the eggs, in their shells, into a bowl of lukewarm water to warm them to body-temperature.
- Place the softened butter, vanilla, caster and brown sugar in the bowl of a freestanding mixer with a paddle attachment and beat until light.
- Lightly beat the eggs to break them up, then gradually add them to the butter mixture while continuing to beat.
- Fold in the flour and salt by hand.
- Melt the dark chocolate on low heat, induction setting 2.
- Lastly, fold in the melted dark chocolate and cooking cream, followed by the milk chocolate chips.
- Evenly divide the mixture between six 170 ml jars.
- Cover each jar with a disc of greased baking paper and a piece of foil.
- Place into the steam oven and steam at 100°C for 30 minutes, until the puddings have risen, are firm to the touch and when a skewer is inserted, it comes out clean.
Chocolate fudge sauce
- Place the cream and golden syrup into a saucepan and heat on medium-high heat, induction setting 7, until it begins to boil
- Remove from the heat, pour over the chocolate and whisk to combine.
- Transfer the sauce into a jug, then pour over the top of each pudding.
Finishing
- Top the puddings with fresh raspberries.
Applicance Functions
Kirsten Tibballs
Kirsten Tibballs, proclaimed by MasterChef Australia as ‘the Queen of Chocolate’, is one of Australia’s most celebrated and internationally respected pastry chefs and chocolatiers.
With a desire to pass on her knowledge to other passionate food lovers and professional pastry chefs, Kirsten established Savour Chocolate & Patisserie School in 2002 in Brunswick, Melbourne. Savour creates an opportunity for students to learn from and work alongside their award-winning chefs. It boasts a state of the art kitchen and hosts a number of renowned international pastry chefs each year.