Chocolate sponge with hot chocolate sauce

Name: Chocolate sponge with hot chocolate sauce
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: Cuts into 9 squares
Ingredients: 200g dark chocolate; 250g salted butter; 125g golden caster sugar; 125g soft light brown sugar; 3 large eggs; 250g self-raising flour; 6 tbsp cocoa powder; 300ml double cream; 3 tbsp cocoa powder; 3 tbsp custard powder; 75g runny honey; 100g dark chocolate broken into chunks

Sarah Cook

Published: April 11, 2020 at 2:29 PM

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Cuts into 9 squares

Easy

Total time: 1 hr and 30 mins

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Make this comforting storecupboard sponge for an easy chocolate dessert for the whole family

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Complete the dish

Try our easy chocolate sponge recipe, or make our self-saucing chocolate pudding here. You don’t need to use expensive 70% dark chocolate for this – a supermarket’s own brand will be fine.

Ingredients

Nutrition

200g dark chocolate
250g salted butter
125g golden caster sugar
125g soft light brown sugar
3 large eggs
250g self-raising flour
6 tbsp cocoa powder

CHOCOLATE SAUCE

300ml double cream
3 tbsp cocoa powder
3 tbsp custard powder
75g runny honey
100g dark chocolate

broken into chunks

Nutrition: per serving

kcal874
fat59.1g
saturates35.4g
carbs72g
sugars42.2g
fibre6g
protein10.6g
salt0.9g

Method

step 1

Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3 and line a deep 22cm square baking tin or baking dish with baking paper. Break the dark chocolate into chunks and put in a pan with the butter, sugars and 250ml water. Gently melt, stirring, until smooth. Take off the heat and leave to cool for 3 minutes.
step 2

Whisk the eggs into the pan, followed by the flour and cocoa until lump-free. Pour into the tin and bake for 1 hour or until a skewer poked into the middle comes out clean. Cool while you make the sauce.
step 3

Put all the sauce ingredients into a pan with 300ml of water and keep stirring while you melt over a low heat. Once smooth, let it come to a gentle simmer, then bubble for 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly, until thickened (if it gets too thick to pour, add a little more water).
step 4

Cut the warm sponge into nine squares and serve each with loads of the chocolate sauce poured over.

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Sarah Cook

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