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!
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?)
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.
More Comfort 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 - simple and delicious!
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.
Lucy
I’d like a bowl with custard please! Perfect for this time of year
Camilla
Thanks Lucy, yes custard all the way (except for my son who doesn’t like custard)!
anne wallwin
It looks amazing!
Camilla
Thank you Anne:-)
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche
I don’t think I’ve ever had Eve’s pudding! It looks like a brilliant winter warmer though – just the thing for a good spoonful of custard 🙂
Camilla
Oh Becca, you have missed out then and really need to try it-)
Chris Thinly Spread
This is just autumn in a bowl really isn’t it?! Delicious!
Camilla
Totally Chris:-)
Choclette
I love Eve’s pudding, but haven’t made one for a few years – not sure why not. I’m with Dom, it’s cream for me please 🙂
Camilla
Same here Choclette, used to make it more when I lived at home and must have remembered the rest of the recipe! OK cream sounds lush too, maybe lets go the whole hog and have clotted:-)
glenn hutton
Looks so warming… and delicious!
Camilla
Thanks Glenn, it really is:-)
Kavey
This looks so good, I’ve never made one but we have a huge bag of apples from our tree so I’m passing it on to Pete!
Camilla
Thanks! Fabulous Kavey, I’m sure you’ll love it:-)
William Gould
I too have not had this for years! Used to love it – It’s a great alternative to pies and crumbles!
Camilla
It really is William, kicking myself for not having made a pudding I love in so long!
Dom
this, I think has to be one of my favourite puddings (no custard for me though, needs to be cream) Yours is so beautiful and such a glorious colour!
Camilla
Thank you Dom, one of my favourites too so makes no sense that I’ve left it so long to make. Will be on my regular make list now:-)
Paul Wilson
Used to love this sort of thing at school – with lashings of custard.
Camilla
Wish my school had served this but I did learn to make it at school:-)