Easy 'Magic' Lemon Pudding (5 ingredients, No Eggs)
A quick and easy self saucing lemon pudding (AKA lemon delicious or lemon 'surprise' pudding!) that separates impressively into 2 layers - a cake layer and a sauce layer. All you need are 5 simple ingredients - and no eggs! Magic!
Pre-heat the oven to 355F / 180C and grease a medium sized high-sided baking dish with butter.
Mix together the flour, sugar and lemon zest in a medium bowl.
1 cup self-raising flour, ½ cup sugar, 1 lemon
Pour the milk / butter mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until well combined.
½ cup milk, 2 tablespoons butter
Empty the batter into the baking dish.
Mix the sauce ingredients together, then carefully pour over the batter in the baking dish. Bake for about 35 minutes or until the top is golden brown and the sauce starting to bubble around the sides.
¼ cup sugar, 1 cup boiling water, ½ cup lemon juice
Take out of the oven, then leave for 10 to 15 minutes to allow the sauce to thicken slightly before serving.
Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve immediately with vanilla ice cream (if you like).
icing / confectioners’ sugar for sprinkling, vanilla ice cream, whipped cream or custard
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About the appearance: Know before you make it that this dessert is DELICIOUS but it's probably never going to win any beauty contests! It might be one to reserve for you and your family rather than serving it to guests you're wanting to impress ;-)Consistency: Some readers have reported this dessert to be 'too runny'. There IS a lot of sauce, and when you first take it out of the oven it's bubbling and runny looking.Leave it for about 15 minutes however and it should thicken up nicely, leaving the equally as delicious cake on the top.Flour: The self raising flour in this recipe is crucial for it to work, so make sure you don't use plain flour instead (also NOT US self-rising flour).If you don't have any self raising flour, simply mix 2 teaspoons of baking powder into every cup of flour to make your own.Substitutions: You can use gluten free flour for a gluten free version. For a vegan version, you can use melted coconut oil instead of butter and dairy free milk. I don't recommend reducing the sugar as this recipe depends on quite accurate amounts of all the ingredients to work well. Chocolate version: Here's my equally as delicious chocolate self saucing pudding! Enjoy!