Apple steamed pudding with a sticky toffee sauce

Apple steamed pudding with a sticky toffee sauce

Add some toffee to your apple pud to create the ultimate Brit dessert

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 40 mins

Ready in 40 mins plus 1½ hours steaming

Method

  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

Recipe from olive magazine, March 2007.

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  • Binder photo Loobie

    15 January 2008

    Loobie commented on this recipe

    This is what winter is for, wonderful!

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  • Binder photo Louise

    15 February 2008

    Louise rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    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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  • Binder photo nkerswell

    17 February 2008

    nkerswell rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

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

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  • Binder photo 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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  • Binder photo 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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  • Binder photo 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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  • Binder photo 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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  • Binder photo 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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  • Binder photo HayleyGrice

    08 September 2009

    HayleyGrice rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

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

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  • Binder photo Ellie

    11 October 2009

    Ellie commented on this recipe

    The toffee sauce for this is very very yummy!!

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  • Binder photo Jaytea

    06 November 2009

    Jaytea rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    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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  • Binder photo 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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  • Binder photo Vivien Baker

    09 January 2011

    Vivien Baker rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Wonderful - and only took 6 mins in the microwave - just as good as steamed.

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  • Binder photo Rebecca Miles

    11 January 2011

    Rebecca Miles commented on this recipe

    Lovely tasty pudding just perfect for this time of year. I used half those suggested for light muscovado sugar as I only had dark and used half golden caster sugar instead it was still delicious. Made loads of sauce and mine now in fridge for kids to use for toffee sauce for ice cream.

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  • Binder photo Rebecca Miles

    11 January 2011

    Rebecca Miles rated this recipe

    4 stars

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  • Binder photo Blade

    16 January 2011

    Blade rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Made last night using a lakeland pudding steamer (good piece of kit) but added a dash of Calvados (adults only) really worked. won't make as much sauce next time just enough for the pudding as it was very sweet.

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  • Binder photo sailorgirl

    13 June 2011

    sailorgirl rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Really enjoyed this steam pudding. I halved the ingredients as it was for less people. I also used one Bramley Apple and a Pear, lovely mix. The resulting pudding was really light and tasty. The toffee sauce was also a great hit.

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  • Binder photo masterfox

    21 November 2011

    masterfox rated and commented on this recipe

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    Delicious pudding, just lovely for a winter evening. I reduced the quantities to fit my 1litre pudding basin and it took abotu 1hr 20 to cook. The toffee sauce was absolutely gorgeous too!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 40 mins

Ready in 40 mins plus 1½ hours steaming

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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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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