Boozy Chocolate Coffee Puddings

📝 Ingredients

• butter for greasing
• 75 g plain flour
• a pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 45 g caster sugar
• 100 ml milk
• 150 ml coffee liqueur
• 40 g butter (melted)
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 50 g dark chocolate roughly chopped
• Sauce
• 90 g soft brown sugar
• 1 tbsp cocoa
• 200 ml boiling water

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
2. 2Grease 4 x 250ml capacity ramekins.
3. 3Sift the flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa in a bowl.
4. 4Stir in the caster sugar.
5. 5Whisk the milk, liqueur, butter, egg and vanilla together and mix in with the dry ingredients and beat until smooth.
6. 6Mix in the chocolate and spoon the mixture into the ramekins.
7. 7For the sauce, mix the sugar and cocoa and spoon on top of each pudding.
8. 8Gently pour the boiling water over the pudding and bake for 15 minutes until the tops are firm.
9. 9Remove from the oven and let the puddings stand for about 5 minutes to cool for a bit as it will be very hot and for the sauce to settle on the bottom.
10. 10Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve with ice cream, cream or coffee liqueur if desired.