Babas 12 Hour Pudding Recipes

BABA'S HALF HOUR PUDDING

Steps:

• Mix the first 5 ingredients together well and pour into a greased casserole dish.
• In a bowl put the next 4 ingredients, mix well.
• Pour into casserole dish on top of first ingredients, bake at 350 for half an hour.

BABA'S 1/2 HOUR PUDDING

Steps:

• In a casserole dish add, sugar,flour,baking powder, and soda mix with a fork to blend then add milk. Stir until everything is incorporated.
• In a seperate bowl mix water, sugar, and nutmeg.
• Using a large spoon pour the water mixture over the spoon and onto the dough mixture gently so as not to disurb the dough.
• Place in oven and bake for 1/2 hour. Cake will bake and rise above the sauce mixture.

BABA AU RHUM

Steps:

• Prepare the dough: Put yeast and sugar in a medium bowl and stir in ¼ cup lukewarm water. Leave for 10 minutes, until mixture is bubbly. Add eggs and salt to the yeast mixture, and whisk together.
• In a medium mixing bowl, work the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles wet sand. Add the egg-yeast mixture and drained raisins, and beat with a wooden spoon, mixing well to make a soft, sticky dough. (Alternatively, prepare the dough in a stand mixer.) Cover bowl and let dough rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
• Butter 2 mini-muffin tins or 12 mini ramekins. Uncover dough, dust lightly with flour and turn out onto a clean work surface. Add flour as necessary to make dough manageable and knead lightly to make a large, slightly sticky ball. Cut the dough into 12 pieces of equal size (about 2 ounces/55 grams). Dust each with flour, roll each into a ball and place in muffin tins or ramekins. Cover loosely and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make the syrup: Put honey, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and orange zest in a medium saucepan. Add 1 1/2 cups/360 milliliters water and bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve. Lower heat to a gentle simmer and cook for 10 minutes. Stir in vanilla and rum, turn off heat and let syrup cool to room temperature.
• Heat oven to 375 degrees. Bake babas until lightly browned on top, 15 to 20 minutes. Turn babas out of their molds and onto a baking sheet, and return to the oven for 5 minutes to brown all over, as necessary. Remove and cover babas with a clean towel to keep them soft. (Store, cooled, in an airtight container at room temperature if making in advance.)
• About 2 hours before serving, place babas, top-side down, in a deep baking dish. Pour syrup over and let soak. Turn babas over a few times in syrup - they should get quite soggy.
• Prepare the whipped cream: With a whisk, hand-held beaters or in a stand mixer, whip cream to very soft peaks. Add sugar and whip lightly, leaving mixture soft.
• To serve, place one or two babas in a low soup plate. Spoon over a little more syrup, and splash on about a tablespoon of rum. Serve a big spoonful of whipped cream on the side. If desired, garnish with a strip of orange zest, plucked from the syrup.

HALF-HOUR PUDDING CAKE (MONTREAL PUDDING)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter one 2 quart casserole dish.
• Sift the flour, white sugar and baking powder together. Add the raisins and stir in the milk. Spoon batter into the prepared dish.
• Combine the brown sugar, boiling water, butter and vanilla. Gently pour over the batter. Do not stir.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 minutes. Serve warm.