The 77th Bake: Hot White Chocolate Sponge Pudding

I’m a little behind on my bakes this month, so I’m trying to whizz through them.  Hence these puddings. I whipped these up while dinner was cooking, potato bake (made with sliced potatoes, cream, garlic, grated tasty cheese and salt, mmmmmmm) and baked salmon (salmon covered in honey and capers,mmmmmmm).  Well anyway, while all this was going on in the oven, I ventured to whip up the puddings, multitasking not always necessarily fun but necessary all the same.  Speaking of being organised, I recently bought a book called the life-changing magic of tidying up by Marie Kondo (it’s sold 6 million copies!!)  Her method, the konmari method, is based on only keeping items in your life that “spark joy” and focusing on discarding first before you tidy or store.  I have found this book revolutionary!!!  It works.  Here’s a link to the basics.https://www.drnorthrup.com/7-tips-to-organize-your-home-using-the-konmari-method/  Now back to the bake, I melted white chocolate, no gas, so had to do it in the microwave, no worries. It sat there waiting while I
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The 48th Bake: Ginger and Pear Pudding

 

We had the family, or some of them coming for dinner; my brother, sisters and kids.  Time to bake a pudding.  This ginger and pear pudding looked just the ticket.  I was staying at Mums for the school holidays, and she doesn’t have a set of electronic kitchen scales so I had to pull out all the stops to measure the ingredients.

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