Malva Pudding

This is a very typical South African dessert - it is a cake like thing you bake and then pour some sauce over it. It is also the recipe that Oprah's chef made at the opening of her school in South Africa. There are many Malva Pudding recipes, each person knowing that their recipe is the best. I post a few recipes here.

Malva Pudding

3/4 cup sugar

2 large eggs

1 Tbsp apricot jam

5 ounces all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 generous Tbsp butter

1 tsp vinegar

1/3 cup milk

Sauce Ingredients
3.4 cup fresh cream
3 1/2 ounces butter
5 ounces sugar
1/3 cup hot water
1 tsp vanilla essence

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat or whip the sugar and eggs, preferably in a food processor, until thick and lemon colored. Then, add the apricot jam and mix thoroughly.

Sieve together the flour, baking soda and salt. Melt the butter (do not boil!) and add the vinegar. Add this mixture, as well as the milk, to the egg mixture in the processor, alternately with the flour. Beat well.

Pour into an oven-proof dish, and bake for 45 to 50 minutes. In a pot, melt together the ingredients for the sauce. When the cake is halfway baked, take it out of oven. Make holes in cake and pour the sauce over the pudding. Return to the oven.