Description
Eight warm portions of brown-sugar sponge with sauce beneath.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup All-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Fine salt
- 1/2 cup Packed light brown sugar, for cake
- 4 tablespoons Unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup Whole milk
- 1 egg Large egg
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup Packed light brown sugar, for sauce layer
- 1 tablespoon Cornstarch
- 1 1/4 cups Hot water
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°F and lightly butter an 8-inch square baking dish from the measured four tablespoons. Whisk 1 cup flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt and 1/2 cup brown sugar.
- Whisk remaining melted butter with 1/2 cup milk, one egg and 1 tsp vanilla. Fold wet into dry just until combined and spread batter in the dish.
- Mix the separate 1/2 cup brown sugar with 1 tbsp cornstarch and scatter evenly over batter. Pour 1 1/4 cups hot water gently across the back of a spoon over the surface. Do not stir the water into the batter.
- Bake approximately 35–40 minutes until the sponge top is set and sauce bubbles at the edge. Rest ten minutes, then spoon into eight provisional bowls with sauce from below. Test whether the sauce thickens and center sets in the specified pan.
Notes
Recipe-development draft; not kitchen-tested. Timing and yield are estimates. Nutrition has not been calculated.
Additional chilling, resting or cooling time: 10 minutes, included in the total.
Untested estimate: 35–40-minute bake and ten-minute rest, then spoon warm; preheat excluded.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Chilling, resting or cooling: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Category: Cakes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: One eighth of an 8-inch square dish with sauce