Get the Recipe: Maple Walnut Pudding Chômeur
A French-Canadian classic, this is a self-saucing cake, with walnuts and a maple syrup flavoured sauce.
Ingredients
Cake:
- 2/3 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/4 cup butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup milk
Sauce:
- 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar, packed
- 1 1/2 cups boiling water
- 1/2 cup real maple syrup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. (regular bake setting/not fan assisted) Grease a 9-inch square baking pan and set onto a baking sheet. Sprinkle chopped walnuts evenly over the bottom of the pan. Set aside.
- In a large bowl with an electric mixer of in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat butter with brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla and mix until combined.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add flour mixture to batter in 3 additions, alternating with the milk. Mix just until combined. Spoon into prepared pan and spread into an even layer.
- Make sauce by combining sauce ingredients in a medium saucepan. Heat over high heat until mixture comes to a boil, then reduce heat to medium and boil for 2 minutes. Carefully and slowly pour sauce mixture over batter in pan. Do not stir.
- Bake with pan on baking sheet in preheated oven for 30-40 minutes, or until cake is set (pulling away from sides of pan) and golden.
- Serve warm with a drizzle of cream or a scoop of ice cream.
Notes
Be sure to read the notes above the Recipe Card, for more tips on making this recipe.
Serving: 1serving, Calories: 339kcal, Carbohydrates: 63g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 8g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Cholesterol: 26mg, Sodium: 108mg, Potassium: 200mg, Sugar: 49g, Vitamin A: 170IU, Vitamin C: 0.1mg, Calcium: 98mg, Iron: 1.3mg
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