Apple-caramel sponge pudding recipe | Gourmet Traveller

Ingredients

• 150 gm butter, diced, plus extra for greasing
• 1 kg mixed apples, such as Granny Smith and pink lady, peeled, cored and thickly sliced, plus 1 extra apple
• 130 gm caster sugar
• 130 gm brown sugar
• 1 tbsp brandy
• Juice and finely grated rind of ½ orange and ½ lemon
• 125 ml buttermilk, well shaken (½ cup)
• 1 egg
• 200 gm self-raising flour (1⅓ cups)
• 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• 80 gm golden syrup
• Icing sugar, for dusting
• Vanilla ice-cream or thick cream, to serve