Malva pudding is a popular South African dessert of Cape Dutch origin. It’s a soft spongy buttery dessert with the taste of apricot, served hot with cream, or ice-cream or custard. It’s easy to make and is normally had after a Sunday lunch or braai (barbecue).

Ingredients:

Pudding:

• 1 cup cake flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp bicarb of soda
• 1 tbsp apricot jam
• 1 tbsp salted butter (melted)
• 1 egg (beaten)
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup pouring cream
• 1 tsp lemon juice

Sauce:

• 1 cup pouring cream
• 1/2 tbsp salted butter
• 1/2 cup water (boiling)
• 1 cup sugar
• A tot of brandy

Method:

Pudding:

• Turn up the oven to 180 degrees Celsius
• Mix together the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl
• Mix the wet ingredients into a separate bowl
• Add the mixed wet ingredients into the mixing bowl with the dry ingredients and mix all the ingredients together
• Pour into the ingredients into a casserole dish and pop it into the oven for 30 minutes

Sauce:

• While the pudding is in the oven, grab a saucepan and start making the sauce
• Add the boiling water to the saucepan on a high heat followed by the pouring cream, sugar, melted butter and the tot of brandy
• Mix the sauce in the saucepan until it starts frothing
• Reduce to a low heat and simmer until the pudding in the oven is ready

Once the 30 minutes is done, grab the pudding out of the oven. It should be a golden brown. While it’s still hot, take a fork and make some holes in the pudding. Pour the sauce over the pudding until the pudding is saturated.

Serve with ice-cream, cream or custard while it’s still hot!