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The Best Malva Pudding
Serves 6
Easy
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Malva Pudding is a big part of South African Desserts, it is easy and you can create more dessert out of one recipe, the great thing about this Malva pudding is that you can add more ingredients like Fruits, Nuts and Wines. Be creative!!
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Pudding:
- 250 ml Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 30 ml Apricot Jam
- 30 ml Butter
- 5 ml Vinegar
- 125 ml Milk
- 310 ml Cake Flour
- 5 ml Bicarbonate Soda
- 1 ml Salt
Sauce:
- 250 ml Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 30 ml Apricot Jam
- 30 ml Butter
- 5 ml Vinegar
- 125 ml Milk
- 310 ml Cake Flour
- 5 ml Bicarbonate Soda
- 1 ml Salt
- 250 ml Fresh Cream
- 125 ml Butter
- 125ml Brown Sugar
- 125 ml Water
- 5 ml Vanilla Essence
- 30ml Golden Syrup (optional)
- 4 Star Anise (optional)
Method
step 1
Heat the oven to 180°C Beat the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the apricot jamstep 2
Melt butter in a small pot on medium heat and add the vinegar and milk Sift the flour, bicarb and salt together and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk. Pour into a deep round dish or an ovenproof casserole dish that takes about 2 litresstep 3
Bake at 180°C for 45 minutes until the top is nicely brownedstep 4
Sauce: Bring the butter, cream, sugar and water to the boil and simmer, add star anise, vanilla essence and golden syrup and stirring all the time for 5 minutes. Remove from the stove. Pour over the hot baked pudding.step 5
Be Creative: Use Amarula Cream for Sauce. For Brandy Pudding: add 100 ml chopped Mixed Nuts (Walnuts), 100 ml Dates (Stone and Chopped) and 50 ml Glazed Cherries to the batter. add 100 ml Brandy to the Sauce.
