Steamed Pudding

Barb Kelnar
Barb Kelnar @QuesoGrande

This is an old family recipe from Western NY. It's a molasses cake, and nobody in my family remembers why they called it 'pudding '

Steamed Pudding

This is an old family recipe from Western NY. It's a molasses cake, and nobody in my family remembers why they called it 'pudding '

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Ingredients

45 minutes
8 servings
  1. 1/2 Cupmolasses
  2. 2 TBSsugar
  3. 1 1/2 CupCake flour, heaping
  4. 1/2 Cupwater, boiling
  5. 4 TBSbutter
  6. 1egg
  7. 1 TSPbaking soda, dissolved in 2 TBS water
  8. 1/2 TSPsalt
  9. Glaze topping
  10. 1 Cupsugar
  11. 1/2 Cupbutter, softened
  12. 3eggs, separated yolks and whites
  13. 1 TSPvanilla

Cooking Instructions

45 minutes
  1. 1

    Melt 4 TBS butter, reserve 2 TBS. Brush inside of bunt cake pan (smaller version). Set aside.

  2. 2

    Combine sugar, egg, 2TBS melted butter and molasses, mixing well.

  3. 3

    Alternate, adding 1/2 flour, 1/2 boiling water, while mixing until all is incorporated.

  4. 4

    Pour into pan, carefully. Try not to drip on center post of pan.

  5. 5

    Secure pan in a steamer bath (stock pot with 1 inch of water boiling) cover the steamer pan and steam for 45 minutes, undisturbed.

  6. 6

    When cake has 10 minutes left on cooking: Separate egg yolks and whites. Add sugar, butter, egg yolks, and vanilla in mixing bowl.

  7. 7

    When cake is done, remove from steamer bath and let cool in pan on a cooling rack for 5 minutes. During that 5 minutes, beat the egg whites stiff in mixer and fold into glaze mixture.

  8. 8

    Put presentation plate upside down on cake pan. Using oven mitts flip molasses cake over and center on plate

  9. 9

    Cut and serve with as much glaze as you can handle! This is dessert is NOT diabetic-friendly!

  10. 10

    You've been warned!

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