Cheaters Black Forest Pudding-Bread and Chocolate -But who is to know?

A moment of silence...
'Bout 5 days of that though...
The rains were good for mother earth but they also s%@#!% with our happiness and Internet connections.
The biggest pain is being faced by the people of Uttarakhand,India,where flash floods have washed away thousands and many houses and the  many, many animals who were washed away by the flash floods.
A moment.
May god be with them in this difficult time.
This is the Kadarnath temple before the flash floods.

And after ...this is an image of the devastation.

Almost 10 feet of mud and sludge has been deposited here.
Sad.


Back to food,and to tummies full of food and chocolate.
Cooking without fire...
That's what the babies at the school summer camp were doing while the high school students and we the teachers were sweltering in the heat and humidity.
The after effect of the humidity is frizzy hair...
Not very attractive, but then that is what hair straighteners are for.
Hair and desserts...
Connection??

 Well lots...
Because of the heat ...
One does not want to enter the kitchen and be cursed with  a frizzy head of hair.
And little babies want their chocolate puddings.
But the magic of the pudding s the black forest.
Is it bread or is this cake?
Bread???

Yes,me hearties...Bread!
No cake-no cake that Marie Antoinette ordered,but humble bread that one toasts and makes a boring breakfast out of.
Bread that one butters and eats with cold coffee on days that one does not want to get rid of one's laziness and go cook a proper breakfast for one's family.
Bread that keeps waiting in the veggie bin of the fridge to be eaten.
Boring Brown(or white)Bread.
And the magic??
No one will know bread from cake!
If you follow this...

to feed 4 liberally of the

Cheaters Black Forest Pudding-Bread and Chocolate -But who is to know???

you need

8 slices 1 day old bread-brown is better but white works too.
200 gms(a little less may work for you) ground/caster sugar
2-3 tbsp cocoa
1/2 cup milk
1 peg rum-to make the world a better place
200 mils non dairy cream -whipped and whisked to peaked submission
Extra chocolate/cherries to garnish-if you are not attacked before you decide that they are optional...

Mix the caster sugar and the cocoa powder together.In an ideal world mix the cocoa powder after you taste the bread and sugar mix...
But whatever!

That is poor bread,that has been ignored for such a long while...

Ground to fine crumbs in the jar of your mixer....
Mixed well wi\th the sugar and cocoa to be coated in chocolate...

Like so...
After much tasting we move on...

To the dish to plate this in...
Not for us a boring flat ,square dish to serve the pudding...
No we need shot glasses and a mini fish bowl and a glass for the photograph!
Insane...yeah!We are on vacation.

Pressed into the dishes(glasses in this case)pour over the milk-and rum, in case you are not dealing with hyper active teenagers living on WWE and the likes...

Whipping the cream-if asked to whisk the cream using their bare hands...they run away to hide in their AC rooms...labour here is only for the mother to do!

And then piped or layered on and dunked into the fridge to chill...

 These need a few hours...
They are not the Instant 2 minute pudding shots.
Patience is not a virtue of the teenager living in my house-or I did not teach it well...
half an hour later....

 This glass is half full...
And next to that glass,ready to be attacked...
The shot glasses.
Thank god I skipped the rum...
I would have had a very drunk barely focussed kid to deal with.

Half full or no...

The pudding is exactly that.

Chocolate Cake and cream that misses its cherries and chocolate shavings.

Because one was not allowed to even ponder about the possibilities.

So danger of frizzy hair or not...

You must,You must shave some chocolate over this and stone a few cherries.

I am going cherry shopping in my local market ...

So what are you baking today???

PS baked Mutton Biryani...