Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Mini Lemon Curd Sponge Puddings


 



When I was randomly going through the recipes from the book of weight watchers-baking recipes, I came across this lemon curd pudding. These pudding are little bit different from our usual way of preparing the puddings (Or I know only the usual preparation) and found this method was easy. I finished preparing it within 30 minutes.

I reduced the quantity mentioned in the book by half and prepared only for 2 servings. Here you go with the recipe details. Prepare yourself and enjoy with lemon curd.

Basic Information:


Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 15-20 minutes

Serves: 2







Ingredients:



Low fat spread/butter - 2 tablespoons

Caster sugar - 2 tablespoons

Egg - 1 no

Vanilla extract - 1/2 teaspoon

Self raising flour - 1/2 cup - 1 tablespoon

Lemon zest -  from small lemon, finely grated

Lemon Juice - 1 tablespoon

Lemon curd - 6 teaspoons (See here for the recipe)

 










Method:





For Sponges:



1) Preheat the oven to 180C(gas mark 4) or If it is a fan oven, keep it as 160C.

2) Grease the two pudding pan with butter or cooking spray.

3) Cream the butter and sugar. Add egg and whisk for a minute.






4) Add flour, lemon zest and 1/2 tablespoon of lemon juice and mix for another minute.





5) Spoon into pudding bowl up to halfway then bake in the centre of the oven for 15-20 minutes or until the tester inserted into the centre of pudding pan comes out clean.





For Sauce:



1) When pudding pans are inside the oven, prepare sauce. In a sauce pan, mix remaining lemon juice and lemon curd with 2 tablespoons of water. Increase or decrease the ingredients according to taste.

2) Gently heat to make a sauce.



For Serving:



1) Once the sponges are ready, Allow them to cool for 5 minutes and turn the pudding out of the mould.

2) Spoon over the sauce on top of sponges and serve warm.







Note:

1) I felt the sauce is very less in quantity for two puddings, I served the lemon curd on top the sponges with sauce.