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'Magic' Self Saucing Lemon Pudding
A quick and easy self saucing lemon pudding (AKA lemon delicious or lemon 'surprise' pudding!) that separates impressively into 2 layers - a cake layer and a sauce layer. All you need are 5 simple ingredients - and no eggs! Magic!
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
45 mins
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 341 kcal
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
British
Ingredients
for the cake batter
- 1 cup self-raising flour (NOT self-rising flour: If you don't have self-raising flour mix 2 teaspoons baking powder into 1 cup plain/all-purpose flour)
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 lemon zest only (use the juice in the sauce)
- ½ cup milk warmed
- 2 tablespoons butter (melted and mixed in with the warm milk)
for the sauce
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 cup boiling water
- ½ cup lemon juice (2 to 3 lemons)
to serve (optional)
- icing / confectioners’ sugar for sprinkling
- vanilla ice cream, whipped cream or custard
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 355F / 180C (note this is for a fan oven - if you have a conventional oven increase to 390F/200C). Grease a medium sized high-sided baking dish with butter.
- Mix together the flour, sugar and lemon zest in a medium bowl.
- Pour the milk / butter mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until well combined.
- Empty the batter into the baking dish.
- Mix the sauce ingredients together, then carefully pour over the batter in the baking dish. Bake for about 35 minutes or until the top is golden brown and the sauce starting to bubble around the sides.
- Take out of the oven, then leave for 10 to 15 minutes to allow the sauce to thicken slightly before serving.
- Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve immediately with vanilla ice cream (if you like).
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Notes
- About the appearance: Know before you make it that this dessert is DELICIOUS but it's probably never going to win any beauty contests! It might be one to reserve for you and your family rather than serving it to guests you're wanting to impress ;-)
- Consistency: Some readers have reported this dessert to be 'too runny'. There IS a lot of sauce, and when you first take it out of the oven it's bubbling and runny looking.
- Leave it for about 15 minutes however and it should thicken up nicely, leaving the equally as delicious cake on the top.
- Flour: The self raising flour in this recipe is crucial for it to work, so make sure you don't use plain flour instead (also NOT US self-rising flour).
- If you don't have any self raising flour, simply mix 2 teaspoons of baking powder into every cup of flour to make your own.
- Substitutions: You can use gluten free flour for a gluten free version. For a vegan version, you can use melted coconut oil instead of butter and dairy free milk. I don't recommend reducing the sugar as this recipe depends on quite accurate amounts of all the ingredients to work well.
- Chocolate version: Here's my equally as delicious chocolate self saucing pudding! Enjoy!
Nutrition Information
Calories
341kcal
(17%)
Carbohydrates
66g
(22%)
Protein
5g
(10%)
Fat
7g
(11%)
Saturated Fat
4g
(20%)
Cholesterol
18mg
(6%)
Sodium
68mg
(3%)
Potassium
140mg
(4%)
Fiber
1g
(4%)
Sugar
40g
(80%)
Vitamin A
225IU
(5%)
Vitamin C
26.2mg
(29%)
Calcium
46mg
(5%)
Iron
0.5mg
(3%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 4people
Amount Per Serving
Calories 341
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 341kcal | 17% |
| Carbohydrates | 66g | 22% |
| Protein | 5g | 10% |
| Fat | 7g | 11% |
| Saturated Fat | 4g | 20% |
| Cholesterol | 18mg | 6% |
| Sodium | 68mg | 3% |
| Potassium | 140mg | 3% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 40g | 80% |
| Vitamin A | 225IU | 5% |
| Vitamin C | 26.2mg | 29% |
| Calcium | 46mg | 5% |
| Iron | 0.5mg | 3% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.