Friday 28 August 2015

Malva Pudding with Naartjie and Poppy Seeds




Malva Pudding with Naartjie and Poppy Seeds
Serves 10 and recipe freezes successfully
½ cup (125 g) butter, at room temperature
3 extra large eggs, at room temperature...
1 x 600 g Ina Paarman's Vanilla Cake Mix
1 T (15 ml) finely sliced naartjie rind
¼ cup (60 ml) naartjie juice
¾ cup (180 ml) full cream milk, warmed

2 T (30 ml) poppy seeds
SYRUP
1 cup (250 ml) fresh cream
¾ cup (180 ml) fresh naartjie juice
½ cup (125 ml) sugar
2 T (30 ml) finely sliced naartjie skin
2 T (30 ml) butter
¼ cup (60 ml) Van Der Hum Orange liqueur, sherry or undiluted frozen orange juice
Adjust the oven rack to the middle position. Preheat oven to 180°C.
Cream the butter until soft, add one egg at a time together with 1 T of Cake Mix and beat in very well.
Add 1/3 of the dry Vanilla Cake Mix. Beat in on slow speed. Add the rind, naartjie juice, milk and poppy seeds. Beat slowly to blend. Add the remaining Cake Mixture and fold in by hand.
Scrape the mixture into a large buttered ovenproof dish 32 cm x 23 cm or two smaller 22cm x 22cm. Bake for 40-45 minutes until golden brown. Bake smaller ones for 25-30 minutes.
While the pudding is baking heat all the ingredients for the syrup, to boiling point. As soon as the pudding comes out of the oven, cut it into squares and pour the hot syrup over the hot pudding. Serve with Yoghurt Cream.
YOGHURT CREAM
1 cup (250 ml) fresh cream, whipped
1 cup (250 ml) plain double cream yoghurt
pinch salt
2 T (30 ml) white sugar
1 t (5 ml) gelatine powder
¼ t (1ml) cinnamon
1 T (15 ml) grated orange or lemon rind
Fold yoghurt, salt, sugar, gelatine and cinnamon into the cream. Top with grated rind.
VARIATION
Bake in small ¼ cup dishes. I served these to a garden club with a glass of sherry and everybody was very happy! One recipe yielded 28 mini-malvas.