Chocolate and summer fruit sponge pudding with white chocolate sauce recipe.

I finally managed to "steal" my Dad's amazing recipe for chocolate and summer fruit sponge pudding.

This pud is seriously too die for!

Thought I'd share

Summer fruit and chocolate sponge

Serves 4

Preparation time 25 minutes

Cooking time 2 ½ hrs

Cooking temp high

Ingredients

50g (2oz) butter plus extra for greasing

50g (2oz) sugar

50g (2oz) self-raising flour

1 egg

1 tbsp cocoa powder

¼ tsp baking powder

¼ tsp ground cinnamon

425g (14oz) mixed summer fruit

Chocolate sauce

100g (3 ½ oz) white chocolate broken into pieces

150ml (¼ pint) double cream

Method

Turn on your slow cooker and preheat.

Grease a pudding basin.

Put the butter, sugar, egg, flour, cocoa, baking powder and cinnamon in a bowl and beat them with a wooden spoon until smooth.

Mix the fruit into the mix.

Place mix in pudding basin and cover with pleated greaseproof paper.

Place on an upturned saucer in the slow cooker and pour boiling water into the pot so that it comes halfway up the pudding basin.

Cover and cook for 2 ½ hours.

Sauce

Add the cream and chocolate to a pan.

heat gently untill the chocolate melts.

serve warm.