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 comfort food. Serve with custard or vanilla ice cream!
Servings 4
Equipment
- Wooden chopping board
- Lemon squeezer
- Set of measuring spoons
- apple corer
- Paring knife
- Digital scales
- 15 cm Soufflé dish
Ingredients
- 3 Bramley apples/cooking apples about 600g
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp water
- 100 g granulated sugar
Sponge Topping
- 100 g self raising flour sieved
- 75 g softened butter
- 75 g caster sugar
- 1 large egg lightly beaten
- ½ tsp vanilla bean paste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180℃, 160℃ fan, 355℉ or gas mark 4.
- 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 tremove from 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 softened butter 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 until evenly mixed.
- Spread the batter 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.