Fatima Sydow's malva puddind

Ingredients

- 1 large egg

-  1 cup of sugar

-  1 cup of cake flour

- ½ a teaspoon baking powder

-  1 tsp baking soda

-  1 tablespoon fine apricot jam

-  1 tablespoon of Vinegar

-  1 cup of milk

-  2 tablespoons of soft butter

For sauce 

- 1 cup of milk

-  ½ a cup of sugar

-  3 tablespoons of butter

-  1 tablespoon of vanilla essence

Method

In a bowl whisk with electric mixer your egg, sugar, jam, butter and vanilla essence for 2 minutes.

Next add the vinegar with the milk and leave for a minute.

Add this milk mixture and the sifted dry ingredients with the rest of the wet mix and whisk till well combined.

Pour in a square greased tin (not big pan) or glassproof baking dish and bake for 30-35 minutes at 180°C or when inserting skewer it comes out clean. Also the cake will be a dark brown colour.

While the cake is baking put all your sauce ingredients in a small saucepan and bring to boil, stir while simmering – keep warm one side .

When your cake is done take out of oven and immediately pour over all the warm sauce – it will bubble and that’s what you want – it will be a bit wet and that’s how a malva pudding should be – it’s not a dry cake .

Serve with custard, cream or ice cream.

To make a large pudding, simply double all ingredients.

Fatima Sydow’s MALVA PUDDING