Apple steamed pudding with a sticky toffee sauce

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1. Melt 25g butter in a large frying pan, add the apple chunks and cook until just tender and starting to turn golden. Add 1 tbsp sugar and continue to cook for a couple of minutes until the apples start to caramelise. Cool and add the walnuts.
2. To make the sauce, tip all of the ingredients into a saucepan and cook until the butter and crème fraîché have melted. Bring to the boil and simmer for 2 minutes.
3. Tip the apple and walnut mixture into a buttered 1.5 litre pudding basin. Pour a third of the toffee sauce over, set aside.
4. Beat together the remaining butter and caster sugar until pale and creamy. Gradually add the beaten eggs, mixing well between each addition. Fold in the flour with a pinch of salt. Carefully spoon the mixture on top of the apples and spread level. Cover with a pleated sheet of baking parchment and foil, tie securely with string and trim off any excess paper and foil. Put the bowl in a large saucepan and pour boiling water around the bowl so that it comes halfway up the sides. Cover with a lid and steam for 11/2 hours, adding more water to the pan halfway though if needed.
5. Rest the pudding for 2 minutes before turning out into a dish and serving with the remaining warm toffee sauce.

686 kcalories, protein 6.4g, carbohydrate 61.3g, fat 47.8 g, saturated fat 27.1g, fibre 1.9g, salt 0.3 g

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• Loobie

  15 January 2008

  Loobie commented on this recipe

  This is what winter is for, wonderful!

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• Louise

  15 February 2008

  Louise rated and commented on this recipe

  

  This tasted beautiful, i served it with homemade ginger ice cream (delias recipe). It didn't look as lovely and golden on top as the picture, mine looked a bit grey, i suspect that i didn't caramelize the apples enough, i would recommend getting them nice and brown at stage one. I would like to make it as individual puddings but don't know how to reduce the timings, i would be grateful if any one has any ideas on this.

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• nkerswell

  17 February 2008

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  This is one of the best puddings I've ever tasted!

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• Colette

  05 November 2008

  Colette commented on this recipe

  Sorry - but are we missing a temperature at which to steam the pudding??

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• Koeksister

  05 November 2008

  Koeksister commented on this recipe

  Colette I would put the pan on the heat, bring it back to the boil and then turn down to a simmer for the time given. Have just seen this recipe so haven't tried it yet but it looks really good.

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• newcookie

  22 February 2009

  newcookie commented on this recipe

  Has anyone tried an alternative to walnuts? Also I'm new to making puds - what does it mean by 'pleated sheet of baking parchment and foil'?

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• Chantal

  14 March 2009

  Chantal commented on this recipe

  Newcookie, there's a video called How to steam a pudding in the How to Cook section of this website, I suppose they show it there. Good luck!

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• HayleyGrice

  08 September 2009

  HayleyGrice commented on this recipe

  Delicious - what a nice, warming pudding for a wet September evening! Found it needed closer to 2 hours to cook through, that was with a constant boiling temperature too. Apples took about 10 mins to get golden. Looks a few steps, but they're really easy to do. I made mine in advance, about 3 hours before I started to cook it and it was fine. Got 6 greedy portions out of it!

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• HayleyGrice

  08 September 2009

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  Oops, stars didn't work on my original post - definitely 5!

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• Ellie

  11 October 2009

  Ellie commented on this recipe

  The toffee sauce for this is very very yummy!!

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• Jaytea

  06 November 2009

  Jaytea rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Haven't tried this yet - I really wanted the toffee sauce for the white chocolate cheesecake. Had that in restaurant and it was delicious I will try this pud - it sounds great

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• stephilou

  22 November 2009

  stephilou commented on this recipe

  I love steamed syrup pud and am looking forward to trying this recipe for a lovely yummy change!

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Ingredients

• 175g unsalted butter , softened
• 4 eating apples , 4, peeled, cored and cut into 2cm chunks
• 130g golden caster sugar
• 50g walnuts , toasted & roughly chopped
• 3 eggs , beaten
• 150g self-raising flour

TOFFEE SAUCE

• 175g light muscovado sugar
• 125g unsalted butter
• 200g crème fraîche

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Prep 40 mins

Ingredients

• 175g unsalted butter , softened
• 4 eating apples , 4, peeled, cored and cut into 2cm chunks
• 130g golden caster sugar
• 50g walnuts , toasted & roughly chopped
• 3 eggs , beaten
• 150g self-raising flour

TOFFEE SAUCE

• 175g light muscovado sugar
• 125g unsalted butter
• 200g crème fraîche

686 kcalories, protein 6.4g, carbohydrate 61.3g, fat 47.8 g, saturated fat 27.1g, fibre 1.9g, salt 0.3 g

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