Quick Mix Steamed Upside-down Pudding

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 package yellow cake mix
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 slice pineapple
• to taste dried apricots, soaked or to taste candied cherries or to taste almonds, blanched

Recipe

• 1 mix butter with brown sugar an
• 2 d spread in bottom of pudding mold.
• 3 add fruit or nuts of choice. prepare the cake mix with the egg and milk or water according to directions on package. pour into a greased 2 to 2 1/2 qt pudding mold over fruit/nut mixture and cover with a lid, foil o greased double wax paper.
• 4 place the mold in a sauce pan of boiling water and keep the level of the water half way up mold during cooking.
• 5 steam for 1 1/2 hours.
• 6 unmold t he pudding while hot and serve with cream, ice cream, or custard.
• 7 note: when cooking for smaller numbers, make up the whole cake mix as directed, put pour only half the cake batter into a 1 1/2 qt mold and steam for 1 hour.
• 8 alternately, fill individual molds and steam for 20-25 minutes.
• 9 bake remaining cake batter.