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Sneaky attempt to get my kids eating fruit meets 50% success
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A couple of weeks ago I found these frozen Black Forest fruits in Tesco's, which obviously reminded me of cake :), and thought, 'Could this be a way of getting my kids to eat blackberries and cherries....?'
 
My 5 year old has been resistant to fruit although he did love peaches and plums as a baby. My 2 year old is less particular, but has stopped eating much of anything. Plus I'm not that much of a fruit eater myself, so I was curious to try them out and see if this sneaky trick would work on me too.
 

 
forest fruits
Forest fruits - Obviously meant for some kind of Black Forest Chocolate thing
So I decided to go for a typical British style hot fruit sponge pudding, except that the sponge would have a lot of cocoa in, the fruit would be these frozen Black Forest fruits, and at the last minute I also found I didn't have any kitchen scales or margarine (kitchen scales are packed as part of our attempt to sell the flat, while margarine is probably gone from some combination of disorganisation and diets.
 

I'd guess this is approximately the recipe I used (a bit haphazard due to moving house etc)

Recipe (kind of):

  • 3oz self raising wholemeal flour (another sneaky healthfood attempt)
  • 1/2 oz bran (ditto)
  • 1 level teaspoon baking powder
  • 1oz Green and Black's organic fairtrade cocoa powder
  • 1 small bar of plain fairtrade chocolate from the Co-op 
  • 2-3oz sunflower oil
  • 3 medium eggs 
  • 3oz sugar, mixed brown and white as I was running out of both
  • milk, enough to form the right sort of 'dropping consistency'

 

So grease an oven dish, preheat the oven to 200C, and put the frozen forest fruits in the bottom. Mix the dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately, then combine them, adding either more flour or milk to form a dropping consistency'. Then pour and spoon the cake mix on top of the fruit. Break the chocolate into chunks, distribute it throughout the sponge mix and bake at 200C for 25 mins. Then turn the heat down to 180C, bake for another 25mins, and then keep checking and baking longer until the sponge is cooked (check with a knife in the middle)

 

The results:

Black Forest Chocolate Pudding
Black Forest Chocolate Pudding

My 2 year old ate it unquestioningly, cleared his plate and had seconds. My 5 year old was put off by the words 'black forest', and picked all the cherries out, despite having eaten some in a pie the week before. Personally I thought it was quite nice, but needed a lot of cream with it. I would have preferred either cherry pie or chocolate sponge separately. On its second appearance a couple of days later, the kids both ate it and I didn't bother. But it was definitely worth a try - an interesting result, and with exactly the right recipe and a lot of cream it could have been an unusual and appealing chocolate pudding.






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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 July 2008 )
 
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