This eggless fudgy chocolate pudding cake is self saucing, fudgy, and totally worthy of gluttony! If you love chocolate, this is going to satisfy all those chocolate cravings and how. Made in the microwave, it's got a cake-like exterior, but you spoon some out, and you’ll see a pool of sauce at the bottom. YUM!
Put everything on hold, because I’m gonna show you the secret path to chocolate heaven. This fudgy chocolate pudding cake is such a simple recipe which comes together in 30 minutes flat. This is an eggless recipe that needs just a few pantry staples. What I love about this pudding recipe is that it’s so flexible! You can add ANY toppings you want. I like to make this when I have guests over - the kitchen counter turns into a makeshift ice cream parlor with people yelling their orders! Fun begins with food, right?
Quick Walk Through: Fudgy Chocolate Pudding
Here's what goes into this quick dessert
- The Butter and Milk Mixture: Two simple ingredients. But they are what makes this chocolate pudding fudgy and gooey. This is a baker’s favourite technique when making gooey stuff, especially brownies. The technique is to simply microwave and melt butter in milk. This makes the pudding fudgy and chewy, with a slightly crackly top. Not melting the butter will result in a dryish pudding, not what we want.
- Flour: You'll need all purpose flour for this recipe. And before you ask me, I haven't tried this with whole wheat flour and I refuse to make this healthy 😂
- Baking Powder: We are using baking powder as a double acting agent to help this pudding cake rise
- Real Chocolate and Cocoa Powder: We are taking fudgy double chocolate very seriously here and adding both cocoa powder and real dark chocolate to this chocolate pudding cake. Extra decadent!
- Toppings: Walnuts add a nice texture to this pudding cake. You can also use toasted almonds, cashews or pecans. If you want to avoid nuts, sprinkles also make a really fun topping!
Pro Tip: This chocolate pudding will rise when you bake it, so make sure you fill only about ¾ths of the baking bowl with pudding. It’ll fit perfectly when it’s baked 🙂
What’s a self-saucing pudding?
Self saucing means the pudding creates its own sauce when baked. Our job is to gently nudge it in the right direction and watch the magic unfold!
Self sauce is made with boiling water and a flavouring ingredient - I used cocoa powder and brown sugar. I put this sauce directly on top of the pudding (watch the video). The sauce seeps into the chocolate pudding cake and makes it so moist. Self saucing is not the prettiest method there is, so don’t be alarmed. I guarantee you that once it's baked, this pudding looks and tastes PHENOMENAL.
Microwave at 50%
This eggless chocolate pudding cake is baked in the microwave at half heat or 50% heat. Most microwaves have a default setting of 100% or full heat. In order to change it to 50%, you’ll need to choose the MICROWAVE option, the display monitor will show 800, which is full heat, reduce it to 400 (or 450, in some brands) by pressing the down arrow, or pressing the MICROWAVE option itself. Then set the timer accordingly. The method to do this might differ depending on the brand, however a quick brand specific Google search should be able to help you out.
Tweak This Recipe To Your Heart’s Content
This microwave chocolate pudding cake is super flexible. You can easily substitute and use any of these toppings. All roads do lead to Rome… err. I mean the best chocolate pudding ever!
- Nuts: You can substitute walnuts with almonds, cashews, peanuts, chocolate chips, etc.
- Sauce: Get creative with this sauce. You can upgrade the sauce by adding some instant coffee, cinnamon powder or even grated nutmeg to the boiling hot water.
- Toppings: Top off a bowl of chocolate pudding cake with peanut butter, nutella, chocochips, vanilla, ice cream, sprinkles, caramel crunch, the possibilities are endless!
We highly recommend serving this pudding with vanilla ice cream. This fudgy chocolate pudding cake is really chocolatey and vanilla ice cream just nails it.
Bring the ice cream parlor home with this recipe! Or tuck into a bowl of warm pudding on movie night. And if you tried it, do leave us a comment below!
Watch How to make Eggless Chocolate Pudding Cake Recipe Video
Eggless Chocolate Pudding Cake
Ingredients
Pudding Cake
- 60 Grams Butter
- ⅔ Cup Milk
- 1 ¼ Cups All Purpose Flour
- ½ Cup Brown Sugar
- ¼ Cup Cocoa Powder
- 2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- 110 Grams Dark Chocolate roughly chopped
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- ½ Cup Walnuts roughly chopped
Sauce
- 1 ¾ Cups Boiling Water
- ⅓ Cup Brown Sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Cocoa Powder
Instructions
- Add butter and milk to a microwave safe bowl. Heat on HIGH for 1 minute and 30 seconds. Ensure the butter has melted fully. If not, heat for an additional 15 seconds.
- Combine flour, brown sugar, cocoa powder and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Lightly whisk to combine. Add chocolate, walnuts and vanilla extract. To this, add the butter and milk mix while it is hot. Fold well until all the ingredients are combined and the chocolate has melted. It is alright if there still a few chunks of chocolate, it will melt while baking.
- Transfer the mixture into an 8 inch round microwave safe dish. Use a spatula to level it.
- Combine all the ingredients mentioned under sauce and whisk until there are no lumps. Pour it into the pudding dish over the cake batter.
- Microwave on MEDIUM (50%) for 11 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the edge comes out clean.
- Serve with vanilla ice cream and dust some additional icing sugar or cocoa powder on top.
Sha says
Hey Richa, this looks amazing! Can't wait to try it! Can you suggest time and temperature if I were to bake this in an oven? Thanks!
Richa says
Hey! We are testing out timings and temperatures in the oven but the initial test did not give the same results in the oven.
Jina Das says
By the way, I love making cakes, and I have made all the recipes before, seeing your posts. But I never make Eggless Cake well. Read this article in the morning today and understand the whole recipe again, I made Eggless Cake in one go. All this happened due to this article, then I made this cake for everyone.
Big thanks to you and your useful post.
Richa Gupta says
Hey Jina! Congrats on nailing the eggless cake technique! Now you can make it again and again, we have a bunch of eggless cake recipes for you 🙂
Varsha Ghosh says
Made this recipe today and it turned out perfect!
Initially I was overwhelmed to see the pool of sauce floating on top of the pudding cake, but when it got done - the liquid actually did stepped through the cracks which was beautiful 🙂