Chocolate and Orange Self Saucing Pudding

I was so happy to be chosen as a recipe tester for this! It was absolutely delicious! Very rich and decadent but the flavour was amazing. Very chocolatey with a great hint of orange. I actually added extra orange juice and would definitely recommend this if you love orange! It was very moist and made a large serving so we could eat it over 2 nights. Will absolutely be making it again!

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Finally got to test the self-saucing chocolate & orange pudding recipe! I made it at my sister’s house and test-shared it with her, my 16-year-old niece and 82-year-old mum - who used to make a delicious self-saucing chocolate pudding when I was a kid.

Notes: Ironically, my niece said she doesn’t like oranges (a fact she attributes to my sister eating a lot of oranges when she was pregnant with her!) and thought she could taste the orange a lot (but she still enjoyed the pudding and had seconds!!), but my mum, my sister and I all felt the orange was so subtle - barely noticeable. My sister and I both love oranges, so if you love oranges too, I would recommend experimenting with increasing the amount of orange juice and zest you put in it - I’m going to do that next time. *I used one fairly large orange, so if you’re using a small or medium-sized one, you might like to use two. I also poured the bit of remaining orange liquid used for serving over my bit of pudding that I took home to eat the next day thinking it would soak in and give it even more flavour and moistness!

The recipe said to “pour” the batter into the tin but I found my batter was very stiff. I was using my sister’s measuring cups etc., and her new oven, and as it was a recipe test for the first time, I stuck to the exact measurements given. I’d just say, make sure you know your measuring equipment and oven well, and adjust the measurements if you think it looks too stiff e.g. put more milk and/or orange juice in.

The only suggestion I have about the recipe itself is that I find it helpful if recipes tell you what size ingredients like eggs and fruit should be. But after you’ve made it once, you’ll have a good idea anyway so no big deal! One thing that the recipe did really well was to provide both Cup & spoon measurements (imperial) along with gram & ml (metric) measurements! Super helpful!! Good job Whittaker’s!

My sister didn’t have the round 22cmx10cm tin that the recipe called for, so I divided the mixture into a small enamel dish and a 23cm x 23cm square tin (which was only about 5~6cm high) as we were worried that the sauce would overflow in the oven if we left it just in the one larger square tin.
The pudding wasn’t too dry and there was a layer of sauce in the bottom but next time I will probably experiment with increasing the amount of sauce to one and a half cups, and also experiment with melting half the chocolate and putting that in with the wet ingredients - rather than putting it into the mixture roughly chopped (since it melts anyway), and none of us noticed any ‘lumps’ of chocolate in the pudding itself. I only sprinkled about half of the remaining half of the chopped chocolate on the top before putting it in the oven, and sprinkled the remainder over towards the end of the cooking time, so there were bits of melted chocolate still on top when we ate it which gave a nice texture!

The overall verdict! Sweetness: the Goldilocks one of “Just right!” My niece, sister and mum commented that it wasn’t too sweet. Richness: Mum said, “it wasn’t as rich as I thought it was going to be” and my niece said, “the gusto of the chocolate gave it its richness but it wasn’t too rich”. I agree with both of them, that the sweetness and richness were just right, although being a dark chocolate and really-dark-chocolate lover, I may experiment next time with a mixture of 50% and a darker %! ;-) And of course, last, but not least: Taste! A unanimous verdict of “Yummy!!” So get cooking everyone, and I will definitely be making it again! Thank you to Whittaker’s for providing the chocolate! :-)

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Made this tonight to go with our Sunday roast. Easy to follow instructions. As there are only three of us, I halved the recipe. It was lovely and decadently chocolaty with a subtle orange flavour. Putting the candied orange on top of each serving just added to the orange flavour. Will definitely make this again and maybe the full size so I can share it with friends.

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Mmmmmmmm, writing this will a belly full.
Very easy to make. I substituted caster sugar for coconut sugar because I prefer the taste. I agree, I'd add a bit more orange, as 1 orange is very very subtle.
The housemates are very happy & are digging into it as we speak.

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Very very decadent but so amazing to wow guests with this desert like we did tonight. They loved it. My kids helped me make it which was fun for them too. Simple to follow and so yummy with vanilla ice cream!

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Easy to follow recipe and a very yummy chocolate orangey pudding that everyone enjoyed! Very generous in size so lots leftover for dessert tomorrow night!

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Extremely easy recipe to follow, simple ingredients and instructions and the results were fabulous, gooey, chocolate yumminess enjoyed by our whole family and was big enough for double helpings for two nights.

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Made gluten free by substituting with Edmunds self raising gluten free flour. A yum twist on such a classic Kiwi recipe. I would add juice of 1.5 to 2 oranges to the pudding mix next time to give even more orange flavour.

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