Malva Pudding

This recipe makes enough for 6-8 people (double the quantities of every ingredient for more), and doesn't require any fancy ingredients... just flour, sugar, butter, eggs, bicarb, milk, a little vanilla, and golden syrup. Oh, and some double cream, sugar and butter for the delicious sauce. Make it yourself!

I had several stabs at making my own Malva Pudding, and think this is the best recipe of the bunch. Give it a go yourself! It’s delicious the next day, too.

Course: Dessert, Pudding

Cuisine: South African

Keyword: Malva pudding

Servings: 6

Ingredients

For the pudding:

250 g self-raising flour
150 g brown or dark sugar
30 g butter
1 egg
1 pinch of salt
10 g bicarb of soda
250 ml whole milk
5 ml vanilla essence
30 g golden syrup

For the sauce

250 ml double cream
100 g butter
100 g caster sugar
100 ml water

Instructions

Mix all the pudding ingredients to form a thin batter.
Bake in a greased oven dish (with lid or foil covering so that it doesn’t burn on top) for 30-40 min on 160 degrees Celsius.
Meanwhile, put all the sauce ingredients into a medium saucepan and heat on medium to low heat until all the ingredients are melted.
Pour the sauce over the pudding as soon as it emerges from the oven and allow it to seep into the sponge. Prick with a fork if necessary to aid absorption.
Serve with ice cream, cream or custard!