Queen of pudding cakes

Retro cake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 30 mins; recipe has butter, golden caster sugar, egg, self-raising flour, custard, raspberry jam, meringue and icing sugar.

Queen of pudding cakes

Queen of pudding cakes

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Retro cake
Servings

4 - 8

servings
Prep time

10 mins

Ingredients

  • Egg: 3 eggs
  • Butter: 200g soft butter, plus extra for greasing
  • Self Raising Flour: 140g self-raising flour
  • Golden Caster Sugar: 200g golden caster sugar
  • Icing Sugar: icing sugar, to dust
  • Custard: 50g custard powder
  • Raspberry Jam: 5-6 tbsp raspberry jam
  • Meringue: 16 mini meringues

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line a 20cm square baking tin. Whisk together the butter, sugar, eggs, flour and custard powder until well combined and fluffy. Spread into the tin and bake for 25-30 mins until golden and risen. Cool in the tin.
  2. Remove cooled cake from tin and spread with the jam. Trim the edges, then cut into 16 squares. Add a meringue to each just before serving.