Pouding chomeur
Vanilla cake floating on maple caramel — Quebec's gooey, ingenious comfort pudding.
- Total
- 60 min
- Serves
- 4
Quebec's 'unemployed man's pudding': a simple vanilla cake batter poured over with hot maple syrup and cream, which sinks below as it bakes to leave cake floating on a pool of maple caramel. Pouding chômeur is Depression-era ingenuity turned beloved dessert. Warm, gooey and intensely maple, it's Quebec comfort in a bowl.
Ingredients
- ½ cup Butter
- 1 cup Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 cups Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 1/4 cup Milk
- 1 1/2 cup Maple Syrup
- 1 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 1/2 cup Single Cream
- 1/3 cup Butter
Instructions
- In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, mix the butter and sugar till the mix is light.
- Add eggs and vanilla and mix.
- In another bowl, mix flour and baking powder.
- Alternate flour mix and milk to the butter mix.
- Pour into a 13 inch by 9 inch greased pan.
- MAPLE SAUCE.
- In a large casserole, bring to boil the syrup, brown sugar, cream and butter and constantly stir.
- Reduce heat and and gently cook 2 minutes or till sauce has reduced a little bit.
- Pour sauce gently over cake.
- Bake at 325°f (160°c) about 35 minutes or till cake is light brown and when toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 800
- Protein
- 7 g
- Fat
- 40 g
- Carbs
- 100 g
Adapted from geniuskitchen.com. Rewritten and re-photographed by MealIdeas.
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