Chocolate Sponge Pudding

Ingredients:

290g butter or margarine
290g caster sugar
6 eggs
290g plain flour, mix with 2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp cocoa
3-4 tbsp warm water

For custard sauce:
1 egg
1 tbsp sugar
1 cup (250ml) milk
2 tsp custard powder, add 2 tbsp milk from allowance and mix well


Method:

• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
• Fold in the sieved flour and cocoa, adding sufficient water to make a soft dropping consistency so that mixture drops readily from spoon.
• Pour mixture into a greased pudding basin, filling it only three-quarters full to allow room for pudding to rise.
• Steam for 1-1¼ hours.
• Turn out on a dish. If it appears to stick, loosen edges with a blunt knife. Serve at once with custard sauce.
• For custard sauce: Beat egg and sugar lightly in a saucepan. Add rest of milk and heat. When almost boiling, gradually add custard powder stirring all the time. Cook over low heat till mixture boils and thickens.