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
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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Billie-Jo

My favorite

Alana

BEST FRUIT SPONGE EVER!

Rosalie

Lovely with any fruit. Yum.

Maureen Wharemate Ngakuru

First time making this peach pudding with a sponge top thanks for the recipe

Jesse Monroe

Have been making this recipe 40 yes cracker everytimes

Elizabeth

This an all time favourite of everyone I grew up with my mum raiding fruit trees on the side of the road out country , and I have followed on her footprints , not so many fruit trees on side of the road these days!
You can not fail to impress with this recipe no matter who you are baking for . Enjoy and thanks mum ❤️

Lynne

Easy to follow recipe in future I would double it as in my household only makes enough for two.very tasty

warren simkin

have used this recipe for many years, easy to do works every time

Anna Te Whaiti

Wonderful recipes always easy, tasty and fun when teaching kids.

PeggySkipworth

Make this recipe several times a month, its a family favourite

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