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.
Elizabeth
You know, I have never had Eve’s pudding before! I need to remedy this error! Gosh that looks so good!
Camilla
Thanks Elizabeth, I’m glad I’ve shone a light on this traditional old pudding as many people don’t seem to know about it:-)
Katie Bryson
These kind of recipes take me straight back to my childhood when my mum and my gran would regularly dish up puddings like this. So soothing and comforting on a chilly day… I must make this for my family as my eldest son would go crazy for it. His nickname is the pudding king as he loves nothing more than sponge & custard based hot desserts! Funnily enough it was what I craved when I was pregnant with him too 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Katie, yes it’s funny the things we crave and go off when pregnant and how these tastes get passed on! Think I’m going to be making another Eve’s Pudding very soon as everyone here loved it:-)
Heather Haigh
What a conincidence, I made one of these a few days ago for the first time in years. I love your addition of vanilla bean paste.
Camilla
Fab Heather, it’s the right time of year for it:-)
Laura Tovey
OMG I bet this tastes awesome!!! Please send some my way!!!
Camilla
Thanks Laura, it’s so good:-)
Monika Dabrowski
This is a lovely recipe with fabulous flavours, apple and vanilla and custard are just so tasty together. I wonder if they still serve it in the school cafeterias, my children never mentioned this dessert.
Camilla
Thanks Monika, when I said it was my old school recipe I meant the one I learned to make in Home-Economics. I wish it had been on the school dinner menu!
Lorna Craig
I made this at school but haven’t made it in years. Have to do without custard etc though as I have Crohns but small price to pay! Apples on shopping list now 🙂
Camilla
Great Lorna, glad to have reminded you of this pudding!
munchies & munchkins
Oh now I need pudding! This looks so good Camilla x
Camilla
Thank you Becky, I’m in full comfort food mode:-)
DANIELLE VEDMORE
That looks lovely – have never tried Eves pudding. Would make a lovely change from Apple pie lol
Camilla
Thank you! Oh Danielle you’ll love it:-)
Richard Eldred Hawes
Winter is coming and this is comfort food at its best
Camilla
Thanks Richard, it really is:-)
Janice
Oh excellent! I have just got a big pile of apples from a colleague at work, was wondering what to make so now it will be Eve’s Pudding 🙂
Camilla
Great Janice, enjoy:-)