Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding Recipe

Name: Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding | Self-Saucing Chocolate Pudding Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Ingredients: 120 grams Plain Flour (All Purpose Flour) ((1 cup)); 3 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder ((21 grams)); 75 grams Granulated Sugar ((1/3 cup plus 1 tsp)); 1 tsp Baking powder ((3 grams)); ¼ tsp Salt; ¼ cup Melted butter ((60 ml)); ½ cup Milk ((120 ml)); 1 tsp Vanilla Extract; 3 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder ((21 grams)); 100 grams Brown Sugar ((1/2 cup)); 300 ml Boiling Hot Water; 2 tsp Butter

Last Updated On: Aug 7, 2026 by Aarthi

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Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding, a decadent, gooey and moist cake with a sticky chocolaty sauce underneath. The pudding cake is so gooey and moist and is perfect for a cold winter day when served hot with a scoop of ice cream.

Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding

Pudding cake is one of my all time favorite. I love the moist and chocolate rich pudding cake with its own rich chocolate sauce. This taste amazing when served warm with a scoop of cool vanilla ice cream.

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About Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding
Ingredients
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The cake is so moist and gooey. The whole point is the cake is baked till it is so moist and has a syrup like sauce underneath which creates a sticky sauce. You have to check my Microwave Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding Recipe.

About Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding

This is one of my favourite thing to make whenever I feel like eating something chocolaty and sweet. I love it so much that I have to share it here for sure.

I made this pudding just now and served it with cold ice cream. Should tell you this, It is addictive. Each mouthful just gave me the wonderful flavour of chocolate and rich sticky taste.

Self saucing pudding literally translates to a pudding cake with a naturally formed sauce underneath. It happens because of an alarming amount of hot water that is poured over the cake.

A simple and thick batter is formed with plain flour, sugar, cocoa, butter, milk and baking powder. A dry topping of sugar, brown sugar, cocoa is sprinkled over the cake. Now pour boiling hot water over the cake, this creates the sticky sauce once baked.

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The recipe starts by making an eggless cake batter using basic ingredients. The cake batter is supposed to be thick. Spread it on a greased baking tray.

Then a simple topping is made with cocoa and brown sugar. When you pour the hot water over the topping and bake, it magically makes a self saucing sauce. The sauce is thick, sticky and sweet.

This pudding is so good when served with ice cream. Meanwhile check my London's Viral Chocolate Caramel Cake.

Ingredients

Plain flour - I used all purpose flour for this recipe which makes the cake layer.
Sugar - granulated sugar is used in the cake batter.
Cocoa - try to find unsweetened cocoa powder. I used it for cake batter and self saucing part.
Baking powder - a small amount of baking powder, helps with the lift of the cake.
Milk - use full fat milk to make the cake batter rich and thick.
Vanilla - I used a small amount of vanilla for flavour.
Butter - You can use oil or butter, but I prefer melted butter which makes the cake super rich.
Topping - brown sugar, and cocoa powder is used for the topping which in fact makes the sauce.
Hot Water - You can use plain hot water or hot black coffee for making the sauce.

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1)Preheat oven to 190 degree C (374 degree F). Grease a baking pan with butter and set aside.

Dry Ingredients

2)Take plain flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Since the cake taste depends heavily on the cocoa, try to use the best quality you can afford. You can add some instant espresso powder or coffee powder.

3)Mix this well using a spoon. This is your dry ingredients.

Make Batter

4)Now add in wet ingredients directly into this. You will be using melted butter, milk and vanilla extract.

5)Mix the dry with the wet. The batter formed will be slightly thick. At this point you can add in some chopped chocolate chunks or chocolate chips, if you want it more chocolaty.

5)Spread the thick batter evenly on the dish. Set this aside for a moment.

Make Topping

6)Take brown sugar and cocoa powder in a bowl.

7)Mix this really well. This is your topping for the cake.

Making Self saucing sauce

8)Sprinkle this topping evenly over the cake. Make sure it is in even layer. You can add some butter cubes now if you want a rich silky buttery sauce.

9)Now pour over boiling hot water over this gently. This part is what create the self saucing sauce. Now gently take the cake pan and place into the preheated oven and bake for 25 to 30 minutes.

10)Now remove from oven and set aside to cool for 5 mins.

11)Serve the pudding with some ice cream or whipped cream.

Individual Serving Self Saucing Pudding

12)You can bake this as individual serving sizes as well. Just pour into ramekins and bake. It is easy to serve and great for parties.

13)The baking time for mini ramekin size pudding would be around 15 minutes.

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About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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