Hi Bold Bakers. Easter is just around the corner and growing up in Ireland, we always followed our
Easter Sunday dinner with a lovely chocolate dessert, now a very popular method for cooking
and making our cake in Ireland is steaming. So that being said, I'm going to show you how you
can steam a really delicious moist chocolate cake. Perfect for the whole family this Easter.
In a nice big bowl we're going to add in our room temperature butter
and dark Brown sugar. Now with the electric hand mixer, or you can do this by hand,
just cream these two ingredients together. So this is only a small amount
of butter, so this is not going to get really light and fluffy like the way it normally does,
but this is looking good. That Brown sugar is going to give this pudding a really lovely caramel
flavor. Now into this, we're going to add in an egg. And then just go ahead and mix that in.
And when it's fully combined add your next egg. So you might have noticed that this
is called chocolate pudding, but it's not actually pudding in the American sense. t's pudding as in a
cake sense. That's what we call cakes in Ireland, so if you’re wondering that is why. So this
is a chocolate cake, also known as pudding. OK, this is looking good. Now we're going to add in
the rest of our ingredients. So into this mix I'm going to add in some melted bittersweet chocolate,
and you want to use a lovely dark chocolate for this, because it just gives your pudding
extra depth. So I would say something around 72% cocoa solids, something bittersweets.
Once that's all blended in there, add in your milk.
And vanilla extract. And I just want to give that a bigger mix up in the sense that when
you're using an electric mixer, this gets lovely and light and fluffy just like that.
So now into this we're going to add in our dry ingredients. Here I have a sieve. I'm going to
sieve in my flour, my cocoa powder, baking powder, and some salt. So you don't always see me sift
ingredients very often. And I'll tell you when you do see me, do it when I'm using cocoa powder
or powdered sugar, because they tend to have moisture in them and they can be clumpy and you
don't want those clumps in your desserts. So give it a quick little sieve and then with my spatula
I'm just going to fold in the dry ingredients. No need to go back and beat them in. So let me tell
you about the benefits of steaming a cake rather than putting this into the oven. Steam introduces
moisture, so it makes your cake really moist and soft. The dry off and he's does tend to dry. As I
was a little bit with steam and steam or that doesn't happen. So you end up with this
lovely soft moist cake, it’s such a lovely method for cooking puddings or any kind of desserts.
I've actually a lot of steamed puddings on my website at BiggerBolderBaking.com. So definitely
go check those out, but just really lovely way to make a cake. My gosh it looks delicious. Oh man,
it's going to be a good Easter. OK, let's get this into our pudding basin. So here I have a pudding
basin. I put a link on my website where you can buy one of these. It's around 8 inches in size.
You can use any glass bowl or whatever you have that is safe to seem. Also you don't
exactly need a pudding bowl. This has been buttered. I'm going to add in my butter.
This is going to be so good. So what I'm going to do? I will cover it in a little bit of parchment.
And then close it in there with some foil. So now I've got a post on my website all about how
to steam cakes, how to set up your steamer, or how to cover them and keep them nice and safe
from the moisture. So definitely check that out. I'm going to pop this into my steamer. So steam
your pudding for roughly around an hour and a half to two hours. Check on this at an hour and a half,
and then you'll notice if it's firm to the touch that it is ready to go. Also when you're steaming,
do not forget to top up the water every maybe 30 minutes or so because it will evaporate
off while cooking. I'm going to leave this here and come back when it’s ready. So it’s
been steaming for around an hour and 45 minutes or so, I'm going to take off the
foil and the parchment and look at that. If you push down with your finger, you can feel
that it's firm underneath. That means that it is done, absolutely perfect, so it's ready to go. So
why not serve it up? I'm going to put my serving dish over. I'm going to flip over the dish. Pop.
It's important the pop noise, and then look at that. Now of course I serve this with a
chocolate ganache on top, you can do a chocolate sauce. Whatever you like.
Pour that generously on top and let it cascade down. And then, while it's still nice and hot
I love hot chocolate cake, I'm going to cut a nice big slice for Kevin and I.
Look at that. It's still steaming. Absolutely gorgeous. You can tell that it's really moist,
even just by looking at it. With this cake to cut the sweetness of it,
I like to serve it with just a plain vanilla ice cream so I better call in my taste testers.
OK, the two of us are hungry. Who gets the first bite? Here we go, Daddy. Oh yeah, Oh my gosh.
It's so rich, delicious Georgie. Well, family approved. Exactly. Oh, look at that. That's
a damn good chocolate cake Gem. Sure is perfect for your Easter celebration. Definitely put this
on your baking list and we'll see you back here again and have a lovely Easter. Happy Easter.