Pear and Ginger Pudding With Caramel Sauce

Who doesn’t like a sticky toffee pudding?

It’s still a bit cold outside, we all need a bit of comfort food.

This is another recipe that can be made in advance allowing you to enjoy the whole of your dinner with family or friends without having to worry about what’s happening in the kitchen.

Ingredients

for the pudding

100g butter
100g soft brown sugar
415g tin of halved pears in syrup
200g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
1 teaspoon of ground ginger
2 balls of preserved stem ginger
A pinch of nutmeg and ground cloves
1 beaten egg
100g dark brown sugar
75g golden syrup
150ml full fat milk

for the sauce

100g butter
150 soft brown sugar
300ml double cream

Method

Melt 50g of the butter together with100g of soft brown sugar over a low heat in a non stick frying pan that can be put in to the oven. If you don’t have a frying pan that can go into the oven melt the butter and sugar in a pan then poor into an oven proof dish approximately 20cms in diameter. Remove from the heat when everything is melted.
Arrange the drained pear halves on top of the melted sugar and butter.
Sieve together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg.
Melt the other 50g of butter in a small pan, take off the heat and mix in the beaten egg, dark brown sugar, golden syrup, milk and diced stem ginger then mix into the dry ingredients and spoon over the pears. Slightly smooth over so all the pears are covered then bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 45 minutes.
Prepare the fudge sauce by melting together the 100g butter 150g sugar and cream.
To turn out the pudding place a plate on top of the pan, carefully turn over and remove the pan leaving the pears you had carefully arranged on the top.
Serve this immediately with the fudge sauce or alternatively put to one side and reheat later for about 20 minutes in the oven covered with a piece of kitchen foil to stop it from drying out.

Pear and Ginger Pudding With Caramel Sauce

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