Oven-Baked Treacle Sponge Pudding
Warm and comforting, this easy treacle sponge pudding is the perfect warm dessert. Oven-baked instead of steamed, it's also super quick!
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 302kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 120 g golden syrup
- 60 g black treacle
- ½ lemon’s zest and juice
- 115 g unsalted butter room temp.
- 115 g light brown soft sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 115 g plain all-purpose flour see notes for self-raising flour swap
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoon milk semi-skimmed or whole
Instructions
- Preheat oven: 180°C / 160°C (fan) / Gas Mark 4 / 350°F
- In a mixing bowl, stir together the treacle, syrup, zest and lemon juice until smooth, then pour this into the base of a greased 8-inch square baking tin.
- In a separate bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until fully combined.
- Sieve in the flour and baking powder, gently folding this until the mixture until just combined.
- Stir in the milk until smooth and then spoon the batter over the syrup in the pan and smooth gently until evenly spread across the syrup layer.
- Cover the tin with a layer of foil and bake for 40-45mins until the sponge is risen and a skewer comes out clean from the middle. Cut your sponge pudding into pieces and serve each slice upsidedown.
Notes
Storage: Keep your treacle sponge pudding in an airtight container at room temp. for up to 4 days, or in the fridge if it's hot where you live.
Freezing: You can freeze your treacle sponge pudding wrapped in 2 layers of cling film plus a layer of foil for up to 3 months. Cut into pieces before freezing for ease of storage.
Top tips:
- Top your syrup layer in the tin with cake batter a spoonful at a time and smooth gently to keep the syrup in place.
- If your batter is very thick, add extra milk (1 tablespoon at a time) to your batter until it drops from the spatula in dollops.
- Swap your plain flour for self-raising flour and exclude the baking powder.
- The golden syrup can be subbed for corn syrup or light treacle, but won't be quite as tasty. See more golden syrup substitutions.
- Black treacle can be swapped for molasses, but will also alter the flavour.
Nutrition
Calories: 302kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 72mg | Sodium: 103mg | Potassium: 181mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 31g | Vitamin A: 426IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 111mg | Iron: 2mg