Name: Fruit Sponge
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 100 min

Ingredients

2 cups hot stewed fruit e.g apples, boysenberries, apricots, sweetened to taste
125g butter (or Olivani Spread)
½ tsp vanilla essence
½ cup Chelsea white sugar
2 eggs
1 cup Edmonds standard grade flour
2 tsp Edmonds baking powder
2 Tbsp Meadow Fresh milk
Chelsea icing sugar

Method

Preheat the oven to 190˚C.
Place the sweetened stewed fruit in an ovenproof dish, cover and keep hot while you make the sponge topping.
Put the butter, vanilla and sugar into a bowl and beat hard until pale and creamy.
Beat in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift on the flour and baking powder and fold into the mixture, followed by the milk. Spoon the sponge mixture over the fruit.
Bake for 40 minutes or until the sponge springs back when lightly touched. Serve hot dusted with icing sugar

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Emily

Lovely sponge top pudding. Made it with plums. I was short on time so didn’t pre-heat the fruit and just softened butter in microwave and mixed everything in with a spoon - still turned out perfectly. Was golden brown in 30 mins at normal bake (in a larger baking dish).

Cheryl

So easy and comes out perfectly every time

Sylvia

Very good, never been successful before with a sponge dessert

The best

Tracy

Can the sponge b made with out the eggs.

Lena Wilson

Easy Peasy, it's all in your pantry and fridge.

Happy Pudding

Barry

yummy pudding last one was apple and rhubarb

Yvonne

Would be good to know bake type , ypu tested on e.g. fan or regular bake, ovens now have options. Brown after 20 minutes on fan bake.

Denise

Been a family favorite my mum cooked it for us I cooked it for my kids now they do for thiers still one of my favorites

Susanne Khouri

So nice to read a recipe with mrasurements that are so easy to produce/use. Thank you.

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