"Hidden sauce" puddings

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Seen Heston has done a couple of these for Waitrose and I fancy having a go at making one myself. What's the trick? I'm struggling to find recipes anywhere. The basic idea is to make a steamed pudding but the inside has a chocolate or toffee sauce - I'm thinking it may be a case of part cooking the pudding prior to adding the sauce (which I'm guessing will either be solid chocolate/toffee prior to steaming)?

 

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Thanks glitch. My plan is to make toffee beforehand and shape it into a ball while still malleable then freeze it. I'll make a figgy pudding and put the mix in a pudding basin and then insert the toffee ball just prior to wrapping and steaming.

If anyone spots any holes in that then fire away! May just be lazy and buy toffee and warm up to shape.

 

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Pudding done tonight, great success. Made Simon Rimmer's figgy pudding (http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/figgypudding_90647) but filled the pudding basin approx 3/4s full before hollowing out a well and filling this with homemade toffee sauce (brown sugar, double cream). I then put a final layer of the pudding mix over the top to seal everything in and pressed down to ensure it wouldn't leak. Worked a treat.

 

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Only my wife was around for the grand unveiling but she was impressed. Other people have tried the pudding and it's gone down well, maybe a good alternative to the Christmas pud next year.