Photo: Michelle Minnaar
Try the following recipe for a unique Christmas dessert.
Amarula malva pudding
8 small portions or 1 big pudding
Ingredients:
- 1 cup (250 ml) cake flour
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- 1 egg
- 1 cup (250 ml) caster sugar
- 1 tablespoon (15 ml) apricot jam
- 2 teaspoons (10 ml) orange peel
- 1 tablespoon (15 ml) melted butter
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) lemon juice or vinegar
- 1 cup (250 ml) milk
- Custard for serving
Sauce:
- ½ tin condensed milk
- ½ cup (125 ml) milk
- ½ cup (125 ml) cream
- ¼ cup (60 ml) Amarula liquor
- Pinch of nutmeg
Method:
- Heat the oven to 180°C and grease the serving bowl or individual cups.
- Sift the flour, baking soda and salt together in a mixing bowl.
- Cream the egg and caster sugar together in a separate bowl.
- Add the jam, orange peel, butter and vinegar (or lemon juice) and mix well.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix well.
- Pour into the greased serving bowl or individual cups and cover with foil.
- Bake individual servings for 20 minutes or single serving for 30 minutes until golden brown and cooked.
- For the sauce: Melt all the ingredients together in a pot and pour over the pudding as soon as it comes out of the oven. Poke holes in the pudding with a fork so that it absorbs the sauce more easily.
