This microwave sponge pudding is one of the easiest, yet tastiest puddings that we’ve ever made!
We’ve been making our microwave sponge pudding for a good 10 years or more now and I actually first shared this recipe more than ten years ago on here. TEN YEARS! I shared it with the most ridiculously small photos and barely any explanation about why we made it so often so I thought I’d dust off the old post and give it a new lease of life today.
Our version of a jammy microwave sponge pudding was one of the first recipes that Miss Frugal ever learned to make herself and if you promise not to tell her, I’ll leave one or two of the original photos in this post so you can see just how cute she was when she made it. TO be fair, the photos were that poor and small that it
She used to love measuring the ingredients out for herself and her face was so serious as she concentrated on getting it exactly right that it makes me smile to think about it even now. She’s definitely more of a throw it in and hope for the best kind of baker now although she’s made this so many times that she’s pretty good at estimating so we’ve not had many disasters.
Jammy Microwave Sponge Pudding
Prep Time:
10 minutes
Cook Time:
5 minutes
Total Time:
15 minutes
This microwave sponge pudding has been a family favourite for over ten years now and I'm certain that your family will love it as much as mine if you give it a go!
Ingredients
- 100g sugar
- 100g butter/margarine
- 2 eggs
- 100g self-raising flour
- A few drops of vanilla essence
- 4 tablespoons of milk
- Jam
Instructions
- Cream the sugar and the butter together.
- Beat in the eggs, milk and vanilla essence.
- Fold in the flour and give it a good mix until it's fully combined.
- Then layer the bottom of a microwave-proof dish with jam - feel free to make it as jammy as you want.
- Pour your cake mix over the top and then cover.
- Pop in the microwave and cook for about 4-5 minutes. Mine is a 750w microwave and I usually cook it for around three and a half minutes checking it every 30 seconds after that.
- Serve with custard, cream or ice cream.
This has been a family favourite for so long now and I love that I can whip it up in minutes using ingredients we always have handy. Try it and see – I bet microwave sponge pudding is one of your favourite family puds in no time at all.
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This is my favourite pudding – lovely!
I added sultanas – lovely
have you ever tried a chocolate version?
This was amazing, never made a sponge pudding before…thank you.
Left Jenna, age 9, to make this after tea. Syrup sponge and custard. Gorgeous and so easy.
Thank you
loved it loads thanks xxxxx
just going to try
yum. we made these in individual domed shaped cups with different toppings like Luissa (good idea-thanks) and turned them onto saucers so they looked pretty. Nobody would guess this wasn't steamed for hours on the hob!!! GReat recipe thank you…
We also do these in mugs so that everyone can have there own 'toppings'. I like syrup, son likes toffee sauce, hubby likes jam, daughter likes plain. Cook on high for about 1-2mins per mug. So four mugs would take 4-8 mins.
Made it with syrup as a quick n easy pud…… thumbs up all round! By the time the custard is done so is the sponge ;o) Thanks
Glad it went well x
this was a lovely cake. thank you
lol eat it out of someone elses bowl – then it's syn free!
My little one saw this and wants to make this with syrup tomorrow – wonder how many syns it is one slimming world! lol!