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.
Richard Eldred Hawes
An old English pudding that is still very enjoyable
Richard Eldred Hawes
An ‘Old School’ dessert, but one that I still enjoy
Camilla
Same here, don’t make it often enough!
Margaret
Gosh its years since i made tis beauty
One for the neices to help with when they come around
Camilla
Great Margaret, hope you all have fun making it:-)
bexjones76
This sounds sooooo nice !! I haven’t had Eve’s Pudding for years .. think I will have to make myself some xx
Camilla
It’s so good:-)
A S,Edinburgh
I love apple desserts, but I haven’t had Eve’s Pudding in a long time either. Yours looks beautiful!
Camilla
Thank you, it is so good:-)
Amy Fidler
Love Eve’s pudding xx i’ll give your recipe a go x
Camilla
It is so good:-)
Ashleigh @ 3GirlsMummy
This looks absolutely delicious! I may have to have a try at making it in prep for Christmas!
Camilla
Great Ashleigh:-)
Lorna Craig
Made it last night,fabulous! Hubby had his with custard, I just had mine as it was , just as great as I remembered! Oh please make this again , said he. No problem dear, I can do that any time! Just a wee bit left………………..mine I think, chef’s privileges lol . Thank you 🙂
Camilla
Wonderful Lorna, yes I had sadly neglected this recipe for far too long. It’s at the top of the list now:-)
GeorgeW78
We’ve just been given a large bag of windfall apples so this will be on my list this weekend 🙂
Camilla
Excellent George, we love this pudding:-)
Platter Talk
Here is something that I’ve never had the chance to try! Thanks.
Camilla
Thanks Dan, hope you get to try it:-)