Food porn for chocolate lovers (Marks & Spencer Melting Middle Puddings)

Member Name: Sci_aj

Product:	Marks & Spencer Melting Middle Puddings
Date:	29/04/06 (848 review reads)
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Advantages: Chocolate heaven, delicious, decadent, divine !

Disadvantages: The calories ;o(

We've all seen the adverts that M & S are running at the moment "This is not just food it is M & S food"… Well quite simply this is "not just chocolate… it is chocolate heaven!"

Yes… I succumbed to the advertising… and the melting middle chocolate puddings were on a BOGOF! So I decided to give them a go, what with my birthday coming up and all chocolate was a necessity!

Melting middle chocolate puddings…. Just the name rolling off the tongue gets the taste buds waiting in anticipation…. And let me tell you it is worth it!

Right… supper is, you guessed it a salad and then a pudding… well I have got to economise on the calories somewhere!

Mmmmmmm….. They are heavenly!

Each pudding comes in it's own little cuplike container - even these are a pale charcoal colour with a sophisticated look to them - M & S really have made this look good… but does it taste as good as it looks that is the question???

Now how you cook these beauties depends on how long you can wait for your chocolate indulgence… me as little time as possible so I went for the microwave option and at 50 seconds for one pudding it is not bad! (They take between 1min 10s and 50s depending on microwave wattage.) For those of us without a microwave the wait is a little longer at 20mins in the oven… but still worth it.

So I removed the lid, placed the pudding on a microwaveable plate, set the timer and off I went! 30 seconds into the cooking time the most amazing aroma of chocolate began to permeate the kitchen. As the timer went off and I opened the microwave the full effect of the chocolate aroma hit me… not one for the chocolate novice, this is pure chocolate indulgence!

Five senses?
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Sight - At first glance, when turned out of the container this simply looks like any other dark chocolate sponge pudding. But break the surface of the pudding and a dark, rich Belgian chocolate sauce runs down the side of the pudding. The sponge looks moist and the chocolate sauce looks rich and seductive.

Smell - Quite simply chocolate. If you have ever visited Hotel Chocolat this is the smell you get in here… All I can describe it as it chocolate - good quality rich seductive erotic chocolate!

Touch - When breaking the surface of the pudding you can see that the sponge is moist and light. Ingredients include syrup, brown sugar and cream and this is obvious from the consistency of the pudding. The sauce pills seductively down the side of the pudding when you break it, the sauce is not anaemic and runny but a deep rich dark chocolate that slowly wends its way down the pudding to the bottom of the bowl.

Sound - the chocoholics in the flat next door banging on the door to get at the pudding! (Sorry for the poor attempt at humour here!)

And finally...............

That first taste - I am quite simply in heaven! Not too sweet and sickly as many chocolate puddings can be, but a rich dark chocolate with enough bitterness in the chocolate to offset the sweetness of the sponge. The sponge is moist and not heavy or cloying, it doesn't leave that horrible coating in your mouth that some cheaper puddings can… it simply melts on the tongue. The chocolate sauce can be a little on the hot side to begin with so I would give this a moment too cool down, it then becomes a little thicker as well. Again the sauce is simply perfection - dark rich chocolate with a hint of cream to counteract the bitterness that seriously dark chocolate can have. As food porn goes this is triple XXX rated!

M & S' description " A rich fudgy pudding made with fine ingredients such as brown sugar, cream and golden syrup, hide a secret pocket of dark Belgian chocolate sauce, which flows smoothly and seductively across your plate once broken into. Incomparable comfort food for all chocolate addicts!" This doesn't do the pudding justice - it is more than this… so much more… heaven made from rich dark chocolate sponge, served with warm melting luscious delectable chocolate sauce… you have to eat one to know what I mean!

Recommendations: serve with extra thick cream and either strawberries or raspberries…. YUM!

If you can't manage 2 these can be frozen. The only thing to remember is that they must be defrosted before cooking!

As I bought these on BOGOF I can't remember the exact price but the number that springs to mind is £1.99. And even if they are not on BOGOF I am still going to be buying them....

And for those of you that have to know… here comes the calories bit… boo hiss!

Calories: 315
Protein: 5.1g
Carbohydrates: 34.4g
Fat: 17.4g
Fibre: 1.4g
Sodium: 0.22g

Summary: Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate!