This year will be our first Christmas at home as a family of four. Β In almost eleven years we have lived in Brisbane, this will be just the third time we haven’t made the big trip south to spend the festive season with our family. Β While we will certainly miss seeing everyone, I’m also secretly looking forward to spending time together, making memories and starting our own Christmas traditions.
One of the Christmas Day traditions I plan to continue with my boys, is making my Great Nan’s Chocolate SteamedΒ Pudding for our Christmas Lunch dessert. Β As a kid I can remember watching my Nan make this pudding from scratch every Christmas morning, using just her hands to cream the butter and sugar together. Β I can then remember my sister and I wolfing down our lunch just so we could enjoy a piece of her pudding, always served with hot with homemade custard, and then arguing over who had the bigger piece. Β While it’s now been just over 7 years since Nan passed away, Mum has continued to make her pudding every year and I’m embarrassed to admit my sister and I have continued to argue over who has the bigger serve and I ‘may’ have hidden the leftovers last year so I didn’t have to share them with her.
Like many of Nan’s recipes, both the ingredients and method are very simple – but sometimes it is the simple things which really taste the best.
Nan's Chocolate Steamed Pudding
Ingredients
- 1 Β½ cups of self raising flour
- 85 g of butter - softened
- 85 g of caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
- 4 tablespoons of milk
- 2 tablespoons of cocoa
Instructions
- Line the base of a small pudding tin with baking paper and reserve an extra piece to cover the top.
- Half fill a large saucepan with water and place over a medium/high heat - bring it to the boil.
- Sift the self raising flour and cocoa into a small bowl and set aside until needed.
- Place the softened butter and caster sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and combine until pale and fluffy.
- Add the egg and vanilla essence and combine well.
- Add the milk and sifted flour/cocoa to the mixture alternatively and mix until combined.
- Spoon the mixture into the pudding tin and place the extra piece of baking paper over the top before putting on the lid.
- Carefully place the pudding tin in the saucepan of boiling water before reducing the heat so that the water is simmering and cover with the saucepan lid.
- Allow the pudding to cook for 1 Β½ hours, don't forget to keep an eye on the water level and top up as needed.
- Carefully remove the pudding tin from the saucepan before leaving to cool in tin for 5 minutes.
- Carefully turn pudding onto a plate, before cutting into slices and serve with custard or ice cream - YUM!
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Do you have a favourite Christmas recipe from your childhood?
What are your plans for christmas this year?
Karen cowdery
Its in the basin now steaming away can’t wait to taste Mmmmmm
Lauren
I hope you enjoy it!
Dannielle from Zamamabakes
Lauren I’ve never attempted a steamed pudding but I now have a delicious place to start. This looks so yummy and I love that it’s a Nan recipe, very special, thanks for sharing with all of us. xx
Nicole- Champagne and Chips
Nanna recipes are always the best. This looks fabulous π
Bec @ The Plumbette
Yum. Chocolate pudding sounds delicious and more my taste than plum or fruit based puddings. Jacob and I had Belgian chocolate pudding a few weeks ago and it was so decadent and rich. I love it with ice cream! π
laurenm83
I’m not a huge fan of plum or fruit based puddings either – give me chocolate pudding any day! I can just imagine how delicious your belgium pudding would have been. Yum!
Kim @landofzonkt
Oh I love this so much!
I love that it’s a chocolate pudding… What’s not to love. I love the simpleness of old school dishes, but the simple ingredients & methods also leave you nowhere to hide.
The best cooks our Nan’s, miss & love them always. x
laurenm83
You are right Kim, they really knew how to create amazing food from simple ingredients. xx