Gooey school treacle sponge

Gooey school treacle sponge

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Cooking time

Prep: 20 mins 20 minutes + 30 minutes in the oven or 7½ minutes

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 6

So simple, so good, especially now there's no longer any maths homework to do...

Nutrition and extra info

Nutrition info

Nutrition per serving

kcalories
371
protein
4.2g
carbs
54.1g
fat
16.8g
saturates
9.7g
fibre
0.5g
sugar
-
salt
0.7g
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Ingredients

  • 6 overloaded, oozing tbsp golden syrup
  • 100g butter, plus extra for the dish
  • 100g sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ tsp vanilla essence
  • 100g self-raising flour
  • custard, to serve

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Method

  1. Butter a 1-litre baking dish, and dollop the syrup in the bottom. Put the butter and sugar in a food processor and blitz until pale. Beat in the eggs one by one, then the vanilla. Add the flour and pulse until just mixed. Scrape into the dish, on top of the syrup.
  2. Either cover with cling film and microwave on medium for 7 1/2 minutes or bake in the oven at 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 oven for 30 minutes until risen and golden. Serve with lashings of custard.

Recipe from olive magazine, February 2006

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satans_lil_sister08:54, 17th May, 2013
5

My bloke loved it. I don't much like treacle tart, but due to the lemon lifting it, I even enjoyed a small piece!

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fanficfan02:03, 22nd Apr, 2013
4

Go to recipe for a quick dessert. Throws together in a few minutes, no fussy bits to the recipe. My family loves it.

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trace28za05:45, 16th Mar, 2013
5

My go to pantry pudding! I don't bother to measure the syrup, I just make sure the bottom of the baking dish is well coated. Delicious with vanilla ice-cream on a warm day or hot custard on a cold day :-)

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samtonks07:34, 17th Feb, 2013
5

Yummy, yummy, yummy. My family loved this! I halfed the recipe for two adults and two young children and it was all eaten up! Will be making this again.

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lollypopleah09:01, 10th Feb, 2013

This is really nice, try adding some syrup to the batter and another dollop more to the bottom to make it extra yummy!!

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handsonpaws06:51, 3rd Feb, 2013
5

I made this the first time in the oven, it tasted great but all the syrup soaked in and was a bit dry. The second time I microwaved it and it was so much better, really soft and steamy with a lovely syrupy bottom :-)

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revivalsharon09:15, 1st Feb, 2013
5

Very easy to make and so tasty. I didn't change the recipe, it was perfect. My husband said it was the best syrup pudding he's eaten and he's eaten a few in his 52 years!

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tara602710:02, 29th Oct, 2012
5

This is a bit too easy to make considering how delicious it is and how quickly it disappears! My kids now request this every time for Sunday lunch and I am more than happy to oblige!

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kidskitchen09:13, 12th Sep, 2012
5

For a really simple warmer this is fab! Will definately being doing this again and again x

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jennifer3glover01:46, 16th Jul, 2012
5

My first ever comment on here but after my gorgeous dinner Saturday evening I just had to write and say how fab this is.....I might even have to go home and make another for a bit of comfort and its really quick and easy. Yum.

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