Hi guys! Me and Hotpoint are bringing to life people's incredible food memories.
So the lovely Sehrish here had a memory that is true to my heart as well,
the chocolate sponge pudding and chocolate custard from school
and the perfect person to bring that back to life is the one and only gorgeous Cupcake Jemma. Go on girl!
Thanks Jamie.
I'm really excited to make this cake because I absolutely remember this from my school as well.
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But first let me tell you a little bit more about Sehrish.
When she was at school sometimes they'd treat her to this really tasty dessert and I'm sure that
for a lot of you out there this is gonna make memories come flooding back.
She told us this cake was airy and fluffy, but still really really rich, and the
best bit is it's smothered in delicious chocolate custard.
To make sure we get Sehrish's food memory just right we have spoken to people at her old school,
we've tested a bunch of recipes and we've even talked to real-life actual dinner ladies
to make sure we get this perfect!
and I think we have and I think Sehrish is
gonna really like this recipe and so are you guys.
The first thing I need to do is preheat my Hotpoint oven to 180 degrees C.
I've got an 100ml of just boiled water.
Add 60 grams of cocoa powder to that
and then just using a fork or a small whisk, whip it around until it's really smooth
and when that's completely lump free just put that to one side for later and grab a big bowl.
Add 100g of unsalted very soft butter.
300g of golden caster sugar.
Beat that up until it's light and fluffy.
Now I'm gonna add the cocoa mixture,
along with 4 large free-range eggs,
and I'm going to sieve in 200g of self-raising flour,
along with a teaspoon of baking powder
and a pinch of salt, and that's gonna help bring the chocolatey flavour out.
And lastly 150ml of whole milk.
I'm just going to beat that together with my mixer
Because this is based on a school pudding,
I am gonna be using a 20cm square tin.
I want this cake to be nice and plump and tall,
so I've already greased and lined it. Now just pour it in.
So now just pop that into my preheated Hotpoint oven for 40 to 45 minutes until
a skewer comes out clean and it should be firm and springy on the top.
It's super important to have a good oven that's going to have a good flow of heat
and make our cake rise nice and evenly.
It's custard time and I love custard so much and you can make really fancy-pants homemade custard
but I thought since this is like a school lunch recipe I'm gonna go old school and use custard powder
and I'm going to put chocolate in it and it's gonna be so nice
and it's gonna get the memories flooding back.
I'm gonna start by heating a litre of whole milk in a saucepan on a medium heat until it's just boiling.
In a jug I'm gonna combine 50g of light soft brown sugar, 50g of custard powder
and 50g of good quality cocoa powder and I'm gonna give that a good whisk.
When it reaches just boiling point pour half of that onto your dry mixture and whisk it in.
Mix it until all the lumps have gone.
Put that back into the saucepan.
I'm going to keep stirring that with my whisk on a low heat
and after a few minutes it will thicken up really nicely.
Then add 50g of dark chocolate and stir it through until it's melted.
Mmmmmmm.
So that's my custard done and my cake is ready.
I'm gonna leave that to cool in the tin for 15 minutes.
I don't have the attire of a dinner lady but I feel very much like a dinner lady right now
because I'm gonna serve it up.
And now obviously it needs to be smothered in hot chocolate custard.
That looks well naughty and very very much like the school dinner I used to know
but they didn't put anything fancy on top.
I'm gonna grate some chocolate on mine.
I need to have a go.
Mmmmmmm.
No wonder Sehrish hasn't been able to forget this since childhood, it is so delicious!
And now thanks to the guys at Hotpoint she is gonna be able to recreate this recipe
in her very own brand new Hotpoint oven.
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