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Pouding Chômeur

Name: Pouding Chômeur
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Canada
Ingredients: 200g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 80g Sugar; 60g Butter; 1 Egg; 150ml Milk; A pinch Vanilla Extract; 150g Brown sugar; 200ml Heavy Cream; 3 tbsp Honey

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Cake batter baked under maple syrup sauce — a Quebec dessert born in the Great Depression.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pouding chômeur means 'unemployed person's pudding,' said to have been devised by women working in Quebec factories during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Hot maple or brown sugar syrup is poured over cake batter made from cheap ingredients and baked, forming a gooey sauce underneath. It's eaten warm with vanilla ice cream.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a winter night in a Quebec home, maple syrup bubbles up from under a pudding fresh from the oven as the family scoops it out with vanilla ice cream.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 200g
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Sugar 80g
Butter 60g
Egg 1
Milk 150ml
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Brown sugar 150g
Heavy Cream 200ml
Honey 3 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring the dark sugar, honey, cream, and 100ml water to a boil in a pot to make the syrup.
Cream the butter and sugar, then add the egg and vanilla.
Add the flour and baking powder alternately with the milk and mix.
Pour the batter into an ovenproof dish.
Gently pour the hot syrup over the top.
Bake at 180°C for 35 minutes and serve warm.

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