White Chocolate Malva Pudding – my ode to Herman Lensing and his Voorskoot!
Posted on October 21, 2013 by nerinatimm in baked goods, desserts
White chocolate will never ever be the same for me! I have a new memory and new connection to this decadent treat!
White Chocolate is not real chocolate, because although it contains extracted cocoa butter, it lacks the component that defines chocolate. White chocolate is made by blending sugar, milk, cocoa butter and a fatty substance called lecithine. Now I have to admit that for me chocolate should be the darker the better! However, I am not here to give you a lesson on white chocolate, but rather to tell you of my experience and new connection I have with it. Try and tell Herman Lensing that white chocolate is not really chocolate and you might get a slap of note, because it was this “non-chocolate” chocolate that sparked his culinary career!
On Saturday, I attended the long-awaited launch of Herman Lensing’s Voorskoot at Leopard’s Leap in Franschoek! I have always had an admiration for Herman, I like his no mess, eat-your-heart-out approach to food and I his abundant and over-the-top-delicious food styling! Page through the Sarie Kos or Sarie’s recipe section and you literally want to lick off every page. I knew his launch would be nothing boring and ordinary, but nothing could prepare us for the feast he orchestrated! When it was finally his turn to talk, I was amazed and in tears as he talked about his inspiration and philosophy on life, family and food! When he spoke about his mother, it was the same kind of words I would have used to described my mother and then he told the story of his first encounter with a white Lindt chocolate and how he learned that day, ” that there is more to life than a Chomp!”
Voorskoot is a wonderful book, filled with simple, 30 minute meals for every season! No nonsense recipes, but served in true Herman style! I cannot wait to sink my teeth into one of those recipes!
Back to the white chocolate…….I wanted to create a pudding that was oozing with chocolate and when I think pudding, I think malva, so here it is then……
White Chocolate Malva Pudding with Red Currant ripple
serves 4
For the red-currant ripple
Ingredients
For the red currant ripple
125 ml red currants – look in the frozen food section
125 ml sugar
Method
Place the red currants and sugar in a glass bowl and microwave for about 3 minutes. Remove from the microwave and allow the mixture to cool.
For the Malva Pudding
Ingredients
125 ml self – raising flour
125 ml butter
125 ml caster sugar
pinch of salt
5 ml baking powder
50 ml milk
3 eggs
Method
Preheat the oven to 180 C. Place all the ingredients in your cake mixer and beat until the batter is creamy and light in color. Prepare 4 oven-proof cups by spraying them with Spray ‘n cook. Spoon some batter into the cups, about a third full. Top the mixture in each cup with some red currant “jam” and top with the other batter. Do not fill the cups more than 3/4 full. Bake for 15 – 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the puds.
For the White Chocolate Sauce
Ingredients
100 g butter
125 ml cream
100 g Lindt white chocolate
5 ml vanilla extract
Method
Place all the sauce ingredients in a small pot and melt slowly until it starts to boil. Boil for 1 minute to thicken the sauce and once the puddings come out of the oven, pour the hot sauce over them, Serve with more red currants to cut through the decadent sweetness of this desert.
Thank you Herman reminding me that there is more to life than just ” a Chomp” and for your inspiration!
Just give me a little warning and I will make this for you in a jiffy!
100? Butter grams or ml’s for Choc sauce. Sounds delicious!
Hello Margaret, thank you for the visit and I fixed the recipe. it is 100 g.
100? Butter ml or gram? For choc sauce for malva pud Sounds delicious!!
Aaagh, ek kan nie wag om dit te maak nie. Veral omdat my man mal is oor wit “sjokolade”.
Dit lyk ongelooflik lekker! Veral met die suurderigheidjie van die bessies.
Wat van die kinders? 😉
This looks amazing! Not a great fan of white chocolate but will give this a try as I have a 100g Lindt white chocolate slab that I’ve been ignoring for a while. May as well treat the man to a decent dessert! Making the Hertzoggies from your blog tomorrow. Cannot wait as I have not had them in years. 🙂
It seems this recipe has cut by half the amount of ingredients given in the video, except it is using the same number of eggs! Which list is correct?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj35bUZYdio
Eggs will just make them richer, and also it depends on the size egg you use.