Quick Toffee Apple Puddings

Now when I say quick with this recipe, I mean 5 minutes to put together, 3 minutes to cook the pudding and 2 minutes to make the sauce. How did I do this? Its a microwave pudding! I have started experimenting recently with microwave cakes and they are a great idea for a quick desserts.

This one was brought about by The Bloke really wanting a dessert on Sunday night after our roast dinner. I hadn't planned one but had planned to try this one out so had recently bought a bag of toffees. Two bramley apples were in the fruit bowl - one looking a bit worse for wear - so this was what I made. They were light, soft and delicious!

Ingredients:     (Makes 6)

100g self raising flour
100g soft brown sugar
100g butter, softened 
2 eggs
4 tbsp. milk
1 large bramley apple, chopped 

Method:

Put all of the above ingredients, apart from the apple, into a microwavable bowl and mix with a fork or an electric hand mixer. Stir in the chopped apple. Grease 6 ramekins with butter and measure out the pudding mix into each, leaving about half a cm for the cake to rise. Pop three of them in a circle in the microwave for 3 minutes. They will feel firm to touch. Take out and cover with foil to keep warm. You can then cook the remaining three.

For the sauce:

150ml double cream
100g toffees
Put the cream and toffees in a microwaveable bowl and put in for one minute. Stir, put back in the microwave for another minute and stir again. Put back in for about 30 seconds. The cream will be boiling so watch it doesn't boil over. This should be long enough so when you stir the toffees will melt perfectly into the cream to make a delicious sauce.

Tip the puddings out onto a serving plate and top with the sauce. Serve with ice cream and enjoy!!