Saxon Tilling's Malva Pudding Recipe

Saxon’s Malva Pudding / Kathy Pitout Photography

About two Christmases ago my parents gifted me recipe book. The journal was for me to record all my favourite recipes before I went to culinary school, to ensure I had my preferred recipes at the tip of my fingers. Malva pudding was the first recipe I wrote into that book. The reason being, it’s my mom’s favourite dessert - and has been for as long as I can remember.
— Saxon Tilling

“Saxon’s Family Favourite Malva Pudding”

Yields – 30/40cm dish.

Ingredients:

Malva Pudding

  • 2 cups Champagne Valley All Purpose Flour

  • 5ml Baking Powder

  • 10ml Bicarbonate Of Soda

  • Pinch Of Oryx Desert Salt

  •  1/3 cup Salted Butter

  • 1 Cup Brown Sugar

  • 2 Eggs whole

  • 3 Tbsp Apricot Jam

  • 1 Can Nestle Ideal Milk

Sauce

  • 1 Can Nestle Ideal Milk

  • Half Cup Salted Butter

  • 1 Cup Brown Sugar

  • Half Cup Water

  • 15ml Apricot Jam

Method:

Malva Pudding

  1. Preheat oven to 180˚C, grease an oven proof dish or line the dish with baking wrap.

  2. Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl (Flour, Baking Powder, Bicarbonate Of Soda, Salt).

  3. In a separate bowl cream together the butter and sugar.

  4. Once creamed, add eggs one at a time and mix well.

  5. Add jam to the wet mix.

  6. Add the ideal milk and wet mix into your dry ingredients.

  7. Pour your batter into the greased/lined dish.

  8. Place your malva into the oven for 15-20 mins or until clear when a skewer stick is inserted into the middle.

Sauce

  1. Place all ingredients into a saucepan on a medium heat on the stove.

  2. When all ingredients are combined and the sauce has heated throughout, make incisions in the malva pudding with a skewer to allow the sauce to soak into the pudding.

  3. Pour the sauce over the malva once cooked and allow for it to soak up.