Are you searching for the ultimate, apple pudding recipe?

When looking for a recipe that tastes as good as Grandma made – combined with the Zing of vibrant new products, this recipe features it all…… using the goodness of fresh apples with the intense flavours of pure Apple Syrup, not forgetting to include Apple Sauce as a part substitute for butter thus reducing the fat content in the overall recipe. (We love this feature). Recently Kelly Young featured FreshFields Apple sauce and Apple Syrup into her Steamed Apple pudding on the new cooking show ‘The Chefs Apprentice’ on Prime TV. We now want to share this heavenly desert with you. Enjoy!

FreshFields Steamed Apple Pudding

25g butter

8 tbsp FreshFields Apple Syrup

4 apples, peeled, cored and cut into small cubes

85g FreshFields Apple Sauce

100g caster sugar

1 lemon, zested

2 eggs, beaten

125g plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

1.    Grease a 1.2 litre pudding basin.  Fill a large pan halfway with water and bring to the boil.

2.    Melt 6 tbsp of FreshFields apple syrup with butter in a frying pan.  Let everything bubble together for a couple of minutes then add the apple and cook for a further 4 minutes.

3.    Beat together FreshFields apple sauce, the sugar and lemon zest in a large bowl with electric whisk until well mixed.  Beat in the eggs, flour and baking powder until combined.  Stir in the rest of the syrup.

Put the toffee apple mixture into the pudding basin and spoon in the flour mixture over.  Cover with the lid and place into the large saucepan and cover.  Turn the heat down to a simmer.  Cook for 1 ½ - 2 hours.  The pudding is cooked when you can insert a skewer into the middle of it and it comes out clean.  Turn onto a plate and serve with custard and a drizzle of FreshFields Apple Syrup.     

*Important Note:  When placing pudding bowl into the boiling water, take care not to overfill the pot with water.  When it boils the water level rises and could splash into the pudding bowl.