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Eve’s Pudding – simple and delicious!

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Eve's Pudding - a delicious combination of apples and sponge, the ultimate comfort pud! #apple #dessert #British #traditional #pudding #baked #comfortfood

Eve’s Pudding is a British classic. A layer of stewed apples is topped with a vanilla sponge for the ultimate comfort food. Serve with custard or vanilla ice cream!

Eve's Pudding in a white dish surrounded by Bramley apples, a tea towel & serving spoon.
I love autumn, I love the colours, the sound of crisp leaves under foot and I love Bramley apples. Every time I see Bramley apples in the supermarket I reach out and buy another pack because they are so delicious and quickly transformed into a delicious pudding.

So yesterday rather than making another crumble I remembered Eve’s Pudding a traditional recipe which I first made at school and hadn’t made for years.

I looked for my old school exercise book but found that I just had the ingredients written down and no method.

So I looked on-line at other Eve’s Pudding recipes and decided that a much simpler approach was needed and also decided to add a bit of vanilla bean paste to the sponge topping as well as upping the apple content (why skimp on the healthy bit?)

Eve's Pudding - aerial view of dish with portion missing and serving spoon surrounded by Bramley apples & tea towel.

When I served my Eve’s Pudding and custard to the family they all loved it and my daughter asked why I hadn’t made it in years. I couldn’t even remember having made it in her life time, but I must have used someone else’s recipe as my school one was so incomplete!

So now I’ve developed this fuss free version I will be making this on a regular basis. We all need comfort food, it’s good for the soul and our well being. Having a bowl of Eve’s Pudding and custard is like having hug in a bowl.

Eve's Pudding in a bowl with custard.

More Comforting Puddings

As the nights draw in and the weather gets chillier it’s time to embrace comfort food! Hence I asked some fellow food bloggers for their favourite puddings, so here they are along with a few of mine:

  • Banana Pudding
  • Rhubarb Pudding
  • Wholemeal Bread & Butter Pudding
  • Golden Syrup and Clotted Cream Croissant Pudding 
  • Quick Apple Puddings
  • Apple Meringue 
  • Apple & Marzipan Dumplings
  • Klafoutis: A Black Cherry Pudding
  • Plum, Apple and Almond Tarte Tatin
  • Blackberry & Apple Crumble
  • Slow Cooker Golden Syrup Suet Pudding
  • Slow Cooker Chocolate Dumplings 

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Eve's Pudding in a white dish surrounded by Bramley apples, a tea towel & serving spoon.
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Eve's Pudding - simple and delicious!

Eve's Pudding is a British classic, a layer of stewed apples is topped with a vanilla sponge for the ultimate in comfort food, serve with custard or vanilla ice cream!
Course Dessert
Cuisine British
Keyword Apple, Bramley apple, traditional
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 4
Author Camilla Hawkins

Ingredients

  • 3 Bramley apples/cooking apples about 600g
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp water
  • 100 g granulated sugar
  • For the sponge topping:
  • 100 g self raising flour sieved
  • 75 g buttery spread (or softened butter)
  • 75 g caster sugar
  • 1 large egg lightly beaten
  • ½ tsp vanilla bean paste

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
  • Put the lemon juice and water into a pan.
  • Peel, core and quarter the apples, then cut each quarter into 3 slices (add the slices to the pan as you go along, giving a stir to coat).
  • Sprinkle the granulated sugar over the apples and simmer (under a lid) on a medium heat for about 5 minutes or until the apples are cooked through.
  • Once ready take off the heat and transfer to a 15 cm souffle dish to cool.
  • To make the sponge topping use an electric whisk to beat together the buttery spread and caster sugar until light and fluffy.
  • Next beat in the vanilla bean paste, followed by the egg a little at a time.
  • Fold in the flour a tablespoon at a time.
  • Spread the mixture over the apples.
  • Bake in the oven for 40 – 45 minutes (or until an inserted skewer comes out clean).
  • Serve with custard or vanilla ice cream.

Notes

If you can't get hold of cooking apples then you can use eating apples instead.

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Comments

  1. Irene Muir

    05/02/2022 at 11:08 am

    Can I prepare this pudding early in the day and fire it up at teatime? Can it be left standing for hours before baking?

    Reply
    • Camilla

      07/02/2022 at 5:36 pm

      I’m afraid not Irene as the raising agent in the self raising flour is activated once wet so need to be put in the oven straight away. You could of course stew the fruit in advance.

      Reply
  2. Jan

    03/10/2021 at 8:45 am

    I added some cinnamon to the apples and it was delicious

    Reply
    • Camilla

      03/10/2021 at 6:20 pm

      Fab, yes I’ve heard of that being done before:-)

      Reply
  3. Linda Currie

    21/09/2021 at 8:18 pm

    My Granny used to make this, we always had it with cold milk – just another serving suggestion.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      21/09/2021 at 10:21 pm

      What a lovely memory:-)

      Reply
    • Mark

      02/11/2021 at 9:18 am

      That’s how I remember it.
      Best with milk.

      Reply
  4. Mary

    20/06/2021 at 6:37 am

    I used pears it was lovely

    Reply
    • Camilla

      20/06/2021 at 10:11 am

      Excellent Mary, I bet that tasted amazing too:-)

      Reply
  5. Cheryl

    04/05/2021 at 1:33 pm

    Hi, Can you substitute the bean paste for vanilla extract? Thanks

    Reply
    • Camilla

      04/05/2021 at 3:35 pm

      Yes Cheryl, use whatever you have:-)

      Reply
  6. Jane

    03/04/2021 at 4:09 pm

    Is it really a 15 cm souffle dish? That seems small.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      04/04/2021 at 1:15 am

      I’ve just been to measure again and yes that is the size of my souffle dish, you could always use a slightly bigger/shallower dish if you don’t have a dish this size.

      Reply
  7. Fiona

    06/03/2021 at 6:34 pm

    I’ve a glut of pears, would it work with pears?

    Reply
    • Camilla

      07/03/2021 at 11:05 pm

      Yes you could use pears but you probably need to cut down the amount of sugar you add to them as they’re quite sweet.

      Reply
  8. Eileen

    17/01/2021 at 1:07 pm

    Can you reheat

    Reply
    • Camilla

      17/01/2021 at 1:51 pm

      Hi Eileen, I’ve never tried but I imagine you could do so in the microwave or if you don’t have one, cover with foil and reheat in oven.

      Reply
      • Mags

        23/10/2021 at 3:29 pm

        Can you freeze

        Reply
        • Camilla

          24/10/2021 at 12:02 am

          I have never frozen Eve’s Pudding before but in theory you could. It might not be as good as when if first came out of the oven though.

          Reply
  9. Muriel

    15/11/2020 at 11:33 am

    How many ramekins will this doe

    Reply
    • Camilla

      15/11/2020 at 5:13 pm

      Hi Muriel, I’ve never made this in ramekins but depending on the size you have I’d say between 4 – 6.

      Reply
      • Elizabeth

        21/05/2022 at 6:55 pm

        I make something very similar but I make a ginger flavour sponge as apple and ginger are such a good autumn combination.

        Reply
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