CHOCOLATE AND CINNAMON MALVA PUDDING

CHOCOLATE AND CINNAMON MALVA PUDDING
Sauce:
375 ml cream
125 g salted butter
200 g white sugar
35 g cocoa powder
1 cinnamon stick

Malva pudding:
30 g butter
100 g white sugar
1 whole egg
5 ml vanilla extract
80 g smooth apricot jam
5 ml bicarbonate of soda
125 ml full-cream milk
135 g cake flour
35 g cocoa powder
pinch fine salt
20 ml ground cinnamon

Method Sauce:
Place all the ingredients into a saucepan and bring to the boil, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved, then reduce the heat and simmer for 2 minutes. I did it on microwave 5 min on high and stirring every 2 min.
Remove from the heat, remove the cinnamon stick and set aside.

Malva pudding:
Whisk the butter and sugar together until creamy, then add the egg and vanilla extract and continue whisking until light and fluffy.
Whisk in the apricot jam. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the milk (it will start to bubble, as if it is coming alive).
Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, salt and ground cinnamon.
Fold the dry ingredients into the egg mixture alternately with the milk mixture, until it comes together.
Grease a 2 litre capacity ovenproof dish. Pour the mixture into the prepared dish. Pour over half the sauce and cover with a lid or a layer of foil.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 30 minutes.
Pour over the remaining sauce. Place the dish back in the oven, uncovered, for a further 15 minutes, or until the centre of the pudding is cooked and the sauce is bubbling around the edges. Serve hot.
Photo: Meisie Van Der Colff