Sunday, November 13, 2005

Caramel Apple Pudding



Yum. This is amazingly simple, amazingly yummy and just right for those cold nights leading from Spring into Summer. Enjoy.

Caramel apple pudding

< style="font-family: arial;">1.33 cups plain flour (250 grams)
2 tspn baking powder
5 large golden delicious or granny smith apples, peeled, cored and sliced 1 cm thick
250 g caster sugar

200ml milk

150 g unsalted butter, melted

2 eggs beaten

1 cup light muscovado sugar or light brown sugar

0.5 cup golden syrup
icing sugar and thick cream

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Lightly buttre a 2.5 litre baking dish.

Place apples in the prepared dish. Sift flour and baking powder into the bowl of an eledtic mixer and add caster sugar, milk, butter and egg, ythen beat until pale. Spread mixture over the apples.

Place muscovado sugar, golden syrup and 30 0ml water in a saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves, then bring to the boil without stirring. Pour over the pudding batter then bake for 30 – 35 minutes or until the top is golden.