Preparation time: 10 Minutes
Cooking time: 25-30 Minutes
Serves: 6
Discover the classic Jan Ellis Pudding, a beloved South African dessert named after Springbok rugby player Jan Ellis. This easy-to-make, sweet, and comforting baked pudding features a delightful apricot jam base and is served warm with a rich, creamy sauce. Perfect for any occasion and can be frozen for later.
Preheat the oven to 180ºC (350ºF). Grease a muffin pan. Dissolve bicarb of soda in the milk. Mix the rest of the dough ingredients. Stir in the bicarb of soda milk and mix well. Ladle the dough into the muffin pan “ fill each section of the pan about half full. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
Heat all the sauce ingredients together to boiling point. Pour the hot sauce slowly over the hot pudding as soon as it comes out of the oven. Leave for a while to enable some sauce to be absorbed. Serve lukewarm with thin custard or ice cream.
This pudding can be baked and frozen. When needed, reheat till warm and add the sauce. Can be reheated by microwave.