Steamed Amerena and Marsala Pudding

You will need:

A good quality jam, I used amerena cherry.

150 g sugar

150 g butter/margarine

200g flour

2 eggs

2 teaspoons baking powder

Cream the sugar and butter together.

Add a few tablespoons of jam.

Add the eggs.

Add the flour and baking powder.

In a saucepan add about 4 heaped tablespoons of jam. Heat gently until it becomes almost liquid. Next add Marsala wine to taste.

Coat the inside of a heat-proof dish with some of the jam mixture. 

Now add the cake batter. Pour the remaining jam mixture on top of the cake batter. 

Cover with grease-proof paper and then foil.

Place the bowl inside a colander inside a saucepan of water that reaches about 3/4 to the side of the bowl. Cover the bowl with a saucepan lid.

Leave the water to boil checking periodically that there is still water in the saucepan.

The cake will take about 2 hours to cook but it will be lovely and moist. Check it every now and again.

Cream the sugar and butter

Stir in jam

Add the eggs

Add the flour

Adding Marsala

Add Marsala to the jam

The jam becomes almost like liquid

Coat the bowl

Put the mixture in the bowl

Cover with grease-proof paper

Steam the pudding