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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Sue

Easy to follow delicious to eat, just like my Mum used to make from the first Edmond’s Book tried and true recipe

Pauline

My mother made this pudding with her bottled apricots from Cromwell (before the dam) and they were wonderful - I now make the pudding for my grandchildren and they love it as much as I did 60 years ago! England has the best crop of blackberries I have ever seen and they needed no sugar to sweeten them so this sponge was the perfect combination! I put the berries in the oven to heat through while the oven was coming up to temperature and this was enough to ensure the sponge cooked well!! Thank you Edmonds for your longevity!!

Jackie

This recipe always works out perfect! Sometimes I use self raising flour if I don’t have baking powder and it works the same. I also do 1.5 times the sponge recipe for a bit more sponge. It’s delicious with any stewed fruit! I like to do feijoas, or sometimes a mixture of fruits like apple/pear, apple/beeries, berries/pineapple (add a small tin of crushed pineapple.. it’s delicious!).

Kevin

Superb recipe; made tonight - perfection

Debs

Great easy recipie that everyone loves. So easy to make.

Used the fruit I had and followed the topping recipe and perfecto

Adrienne

My go to recipe for family meals. I usually make double the recipe.

Raewyn

Yummy for Mother's day with feijoas

Donna Bailey

Great quick delicious pudding made from the cupboard at short notice

Alicia

Best sponge pudding

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