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Wade Murphy's baked lemon curd & rhubarb sponge with custard: Today

Wade Murphy's baked lemon curd & rhubarb sponge with custard: Today
Wade Murphy's baked lemon curd & rhubarb sponge with custard: Today

Ingredients

Serves: 6

Prep time: 20 mins

Cook time: 30 mins

Pudding

  • 115g soft brown sugar
  • 115g soft butter
  • 2 large eggs
  • 115g self raising flour
  • 20g dried breadcrumbs
  • zest and juice of 1 lemon
  • 1 orange
  • 6 tbsp golden syrup
  • 2 1/2 tbsp Cointreau
  • 3 drops vanilla extract
  • 6 tsp shop-bought lemon curd
  • 100g rhubarb, diced small and tossed in brown sugar
  • 550ml custard

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180oC/160oC fan. Lightly grease and line 6 dariole moulds or ramekins with grease proof paper. Beat the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract and flour with and combine.
  2. Add the breadcrumbs and half the zests. In another bowl mix the remaining zests, juices, 1 tbsp of Cointreau and golden syrup.
  3. Place around 1 tbsp of the syrup into the base of the moulds. Evenly divide the sponge batter between each mould and place a teaspoon of lemon curd teaspoon of rhubarb into the middle of the batter.
  4. Place the moulds into the preheated ovens on a tray and cook for approximately 30 minutes until risen.
  5. Warm the custard and add the remaining Cointreau. Remove the sponges from their moulds, making sure you spoon out any remaking syrup from the moulds on top the pudding.
  6. Place into serving dishes and serve with the warmed custard.