Spiced Peach Pudding

Ingredients

Oil spray, for greasing
75g caster sugar
75g butter, softened2 small eggs

50g Self-raising flour

25g Almond meal

3 fresh peaces. peeled, stoned and halved

1 tbs demerara or coconut sugar
1½ tsp cinnamon

¼ tsp vanilla extract

Whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, to serve

Method

1. Preheat oven to 190°C. Lightly grease 23cm round oven proof dish
2. Beat butter and caster sugar together in a large mixing bowl until pale.
3. Beat in vanilla and eggs, one at a time, until light and fluffy
4. Fold in the flour almond meal and 1tsp of cinnamon
5. Spoon mixture into prepared dish
6. Arrange the peach halved, curved side up, over the top. Press them gently into the pudding batter to submerge about half a cm of the fruit
7. Mix together the remaining cinnamon and the demerara sugar. Sprinkle evenly over the fruit and pudding mix
8. Bake for 30 mins or until golden and well risen.
9. Serve warm with cream or ice cream.

Variation:

Substitute peaches for other fruit of your choice - Mixed berries, nectarines, apricots, apple cut into eighths and fanned pear halves are great options. You can also vary the spices used - apricots or pears go fabulously with ginger, berries and apple pair well with cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice.