Chocolate Steamed Pudding

With chocolate sauce and raspberries

Just the thing for a quick mid-week pudding.

Ingredients

60g butter

60g caster sugar

1 egg, beaten

85g self raising flour

2tsp cocoa powder

1/2 tbsp baking powder

1 tbsp milk

For the sauce

100g dark chocolate

1 tbsp golden syrup

hot water to mix

Lightly grease the ramekins with some of the butter. Then put the remaining butter, sugar, eggs, flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into a large bowl and beat until smooth. Add enough milk to give a dropping consistency.

Spoon the mixture into the ramekins and smooth the surface. Cover with greased greaseproof paper and foil both pleated in the middle.

Put the ramekins into a steamer. Cover and steam for 30 minutes. Turn the pudding out onto a warmed plate and serve hot.

To make the chocolate sauce

Melt the chocolate in a bowl over barely simmering water and add the syrup. Add enough hot water to make a sauce consistency.

Serve topped with fresh raspberries.