Name: Toffee apple steamed pudding
Total time: 2 h
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 175g softened unsalted butter; 4 peeled eating apples, cored and cut into 2cm cubes; 130g golden caster sugar; 50g toasted and roughly chopped walnuts; 3 beaten eggs; 150g self-raising flour; 175g light muscovado sugar; 125g unsalted butter; 200g crème fraîche

Apple Steamed Pudding Recipe With Sticky Toffee Sauce

Ingredients

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

TOFFEE SAUCE

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

Method

STEP 1
Melt 25g of the butter in a frying pan, cook the apple pieces until just tender. Add 1 tbsp sugar, cook until the apples start to caramelise. Cool and add the walnuts.
STEP 2
Make the toffee sauce by melting the ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to the boil and simmer for 2 minutes. Tip the apple and walnut mix into a buttered 1.5 litre pudding basin. Pour in ⅓ of the toffee sauce.
STEP 3
Beat the remaining 150g butter and caster sugar until pale and creamy. Gradually add the beaten eggs. Fold in the flour with a pinch of salt. 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. Put the bowl in a large saucepan with boiling water that comes halfway up the sides of the bowl. Cover and steam for 1½ hours, adding more water if needed. Rest for 2 minutes before turning out and serving with the remaining warm toffee sauce.