Iris
Years ago, I dated a man from Johannesburg, South Africa and he was just as beautiful as his homeland. Like me, he possessed a wicked sweet tooth and always hinted around that I should learn how to bake some of his favorite sweets. Those that know me know that I don’t can’t bake but my South African sweetheart delivered one of his impassioned pleas and convinced me to learn just one traditional dessert recipe. Because of my weakness for his gray eyes sweets and all things confection, I called his mum and asked for her best dessert recipe.
Without hesitation and in heavily-accented English, she gave me the recipe for malva pudding–a traditional South African dessert that is a toffee-like baked pudding of sorts. She gently let me know that it was virtually impossible to get wrong which did nothing to assuage my fear of baking but, alas, love will make you do crazy things. Though the relationship has long ended, this recipe has endured and I love baking it when I need to put together something quickly.
[gmc_recipe 3670]
