Rich Choc-Caramel Self-Sauce Pudding

Tisme's Note:

Ohhhhhhhhh, so rich and delicious. I was lucky enough to find the recipe in Food Ideas. So easy and this pudding is a chocoholics dream. The raspberries just add enough tartness to the chocolate and caramel and served with ice-cream this is a chocolate taste sensation!

• Total Time: 50 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 220 g caramello chocolate
• 1 1/3 cups self raising flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 125 g butter, melted
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 3/4 cups boiling water
• frozen raspberries, thawed
• icing sugar, to decorate

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 180c/160c fan forced.
2. Place chocolate block in freezer for 20 minutes.
3. Grease a 3cm deep, 19 x 30 cm lamington pan.
4. Sift together the flour and 2 tablespoons cocoa into a bowl. Add the caster sugar, melted butter and milk. Whisk the mix until smooth and well combined. Spread the mixture into prepared pan. Break the chocolate pieces into squares and press pieces into the pudding mixture, (make sure the chocolate pieces are evenly spaced in pudding) and using a spatula smooth mixture over the top of the chocolate pieces. Place pan onto a baking tray.
5. Sprinkle brown sugar over the pudding mixture and sift over the remaining cocoa. Carefully pour boiling water, over the back of a large metal spoon, over mixture.
6. Bake pudding for 35 to 40 minutes or until the top is just set.
7. Stand for 5 minutes. Top pudding with raspberries and dust with icing sugar.
8. Serve with ice-cream.