carrot cake pudding / pudding sauce

I have ever sampled bread pudding at buffets. They can be served hot, cold or warm and are best eaten with a pudding sauce (which can also be served hot or cold).

I was chatting with Tiki recently and I told her that I was thinking of baking a cake pudding. Cake puddings are similar to bread pudding, the difference being the amount of sugar and spices used. If you were to use a cake as a base for the pudding, you would naturally need to add less sugar and spices to the pudding as the cake in itself is already sweet.

Here is a simple recipe for a carrot cake pudding. By "carrot cake", I am referring to the cake type of carrot cake and not the Chinese version of "cai tau kueh".

Ingredients (carrot cake pudding)

enough carrot cake (sliced about 1 to 1 1/2 cm thick) to fill the bottom of a 9" square cake pan (for the carrot cake recipe, please refer to carrot cake)
1 1/2 cups grated apple
1/2 cup chopped dry fruit
1/2 cup chopped nuts
3 cups milk
3 eggs
2 tbsp brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
juice of 1/2 a lemon

Method (carrot cake pudding)

1. Grease a 9" square cake pan and line with greaseproof paper.

2. Fill the entire bottom of the cake pan with a layer of the carrot cake. Top the cake with a layer of the grated apple.

3. Sprinkle the chopped nuts above the cake.

4. Sprinkle the chopped dry fruit above the chopped nuts.

5. Beat the milk, eggs, brown sugar, salt, ground cinnamon and lemon juice thoroughly and pour the mixture into the cake pan, making sure that the cake, nuts and dry fruit are covered.

6. Bake at 175 degrees celsius for 1 hour.

7. Serve with a generous serving of pudding sauce.

The carrot cake pudding can be served hot, warm or cold.

Ingredients (pudding sauce)

2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 eggs
2 teacup milk

Method (pudding sauce)

1. Cream the sugar and butter.

2. Add the ground cinnamon and eggs.

3. Boil the milk and turn it, boiling hot, over the mixture smoothly, stirring all the time. This will cook the eggs smoothly.

The pudding sauce can be served hot or cold.