Apple Pudding

Apple Pudding

I’ve posted a couple of other pudding recipes like this that are saved to Instagram highlights. It’s funny, pudding in North America is a bit of a dire thing in my opinion – flavourless stuff that comes in a plastic container. Pudding in the UK / Ireland often refers to dessert. These pudding cakes are so delicious, it’s a bit like “pudding” underneath with cake on top. This is a lovely apple one – and if I haven’t said it before, apple anything in my books is always worth making. It is equally as delicious with pears.

4 – 6 cooking apples or pears (depending on size)
125g all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
125g granulated sugar
200g full fat milk
75g unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 large egg
75g dark brown sugar
2 tbsp golden syrup

Preheat the oven to 350F. Butter a 9x9 baking dish well and fill ½ with peeled and sliced apples or pears.

Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, milk, melted butter and egg. Whisk together using a hand mixer for 2 – 3 minutes until pale in colour. Pour over the apples or pears.

Place the brown sugar and syrup into a small saucepan with 125g of water. Slowly dissolve the sugar before turning up the heat and bringing the syrup to the boiling point. Pour over the batter – it will be thin and might seem like you’re doing something wrong, but I promise it’s right!

Bake for 35 – 40 minutes until the apples are tender and the cake is golden. Leave to cook for 10 minutes, serve warm with softly whipped cream.