Gooey school treacle sponge

Gooey school treacle sponge

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

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

20 minutes + 30 minutes in the oven or 7½ minutes

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.

Per serving

371 kcalories, protein 4.2g, carbohydrate 54.1g, fat 16.8 g, saturated fat 9.7g, fibre 0.5g, salt 0.7 g

Recipe from olive magazine, February 2006.

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  • 20 May 2009

    JellyCake rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This is really yummy. I used "Pure" margarine as I was cooking it for a dairy free guest, and it turned out fine.

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  • 28 June 2009

    emmamac rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This was extremely easy to make and went down a treat at a dinner party with friends! Will definitely make this again and again.

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  • 03 August 2009

    Summer :) rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Very Good Recipe! - i halved the recipe for 2 people but still added same amount of syrup but put 3tbsp in the bottom and drizzled with the rest to make it moist and gooey! Served with Plenty of Homemade Custard.. must be good to make my dad say its heavenly

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  • 16 August 2009

    kimberleybillie commented on this recipe

    My children love this, I make it often. It's really quick and easy and the happy faces and tums are well worth it!

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  • 20 August 2009

    littlestrad15 commented on this recipe

    what a lovely cake! I used maple syrup and it tasted soooooo good but the maple syrup started crystelizing. It was still soooo nice and no one else complained!

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  • 05 September 2009

    Fiona rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    My tribe loved this, they ate every scrap so will definitely make it again and again, I did find that I needed to cook it for slightly longer than the recipe says.

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  • 09 September 2009

    Lefylde commented on this recipe

    Great! Top with chopped nuts it's even greater!

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  • Binder photo Ali

    14 October 2009

    Ali rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Hey, Yeah I made this last week and forget to comment, but am doing so now. I loved it was brillant with one of the custard recipes, however I used Treacle syrap, as it was a treacle sponge, put 2 heaped tbsp and was very sweet. It was also very hard to get out of tin. So next time I think I will cook the sponge, serve it up and then add the syrap/treacle on top. Makes :)

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  • Binder photo SM

    14 October 2009

    SM rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I halfed the recipe and put into two individial pots as puddings (with only 2 tblespoons of syrup 1 to each ramekin). Tastes lovely!!! (I added some sultanas to mine too)

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  • 23 November 2009

    caron rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This was easy to make and very yummy.

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  • 22 December 2009

    Belkey rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    This was proper yummy and better than anything I ever had at school! The reason I've only given it 4 stars is because there is no way it would feed 6 people and it also took longer than stated to cook in the oven - about 40 mins.

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  • 23 January 2010

    Naomi rated this recipe

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  • 29 January 2010

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  • 19 March 2010

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  • 21 March 2010

    juliets food rated this recipe

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  • Binder photo Haz

    21 April 2010

    Haz commented on this recipe

    Amazing! Sooo gooey! Will definately try again some time!

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  • 04 May 2010

    Vicki rated this recipe

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  • 02 June 2010

    Becca commented on this recipe

    I'd like to make this but in individual ramekins of which I have four. Please can anyone give advice as to adjusted cooking time?

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  • 07 June 2010

    Becca rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Well I made this at the weekend and it was pretty delicious. I kept the recipe the same and managed to just about fill the four ramekins. I adjusted the cooking time to 20 minutes and they were completely done. I would probably increase the golden syrup a little bit next time as there didn't seem to be a whole lot in there. One particularly good thing is that I cooked all four ramekins on the Saturday but we only ate two so I reheated one for myself in the microwave for 1 minute on Sunday and it was just as good.

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  • 13 August 2010

    misschetnik rated this recipe

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

20 minutes + 30 minutes in the oven or 7½ minutes

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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Per serving

371 kcalories, protein 4.2g, carbohydrate 54.1g, fat 16.8 g, saturated fat 9.7g, fibre 0.5g, salt 0.7 g

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