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Today I’ve tried out a fruity pudding.  A lot of the supermarkets have blueberries on offer at the moment so I thought it would be a good one to try.

Ingredients:
50g caster sugar
50g soft butter, plus extra for greasing
1 large egg
50g self-raising flour
50g dessicated coconut, plus 2 tsp
50g creme fraiche, plus extra to serve
Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
180g blueberries

Method

1 Whisk the mixture
Turn oven to fan 160C / conventional 180C / gas 4. Beat the sugar and butter until pale and creamy, then beat in the egg. Stir in the flour, 50g coconut, the creme fraiche and the lemon rind.

2 Bake and serve
Put most of the blueberries in a greased baking dish and squeeze over the juice from half the lemon. Spoon over the cake mixture and scatter over the remaining blueberries and 2 tsp coconut. Bake for 35-40 minutes, until golden, risen and cooked. Serve with extra creme fraiche.

Notes:
Serves 4
Takes 15 minutes plus 40 minutes in the oven
350 kcals, 26g fat per person
Not suitable for freezing

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Verdict

For once I made this recipe without making any tweaks to it!  It was a tasty pudding. Blueberries don’t taste the same once they are cooked – they just taste to me like a generic fruit, the blueberriness seems to disappear, but they do make a good pudding. The lemon flavour came over really clearly making a nice zesty fruit base to go with the cakey topping.

It wasn’t a particularly sweet pudding, but that didn’t bother me particularly. If you like things sweet I would suggest serving it with custard or ice-cream instead of creme fraiche. Whilst the fruit was summery, the cake topping makes it a fairly substantial pudding, so probably a good pudding to follow a light salad, rather than a massive summer barbecue.