Orange and Almond Sponge With Butterscotch sauce and Pistachio Praline

Orange and Almond Sponge With Butterscotch sauce and Pistachio Praline

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 to 25 minutes
Makes 4
Ingredients:
For the sponge:
  • Plain flour- 60 g / 2 oz
  • Butter- 50 g / 2 oz
  • Brown Sugar- 60 g/ 2 oz
  • Ground Almonds( without skin)- 40 g/ just less than 2 oz
  • Grated zest of orange- 1 tsp
  • Eggs- 2
  • Freshly squeezed orange juice- 3 tbsp
Butterscotch sauce:
  • Butter- 1/2 tbsp
  • Brown sugar- 2 tbsp
  • Cream- 75 ml
  • Honey- 1 tbsp
  • Vanilla extract- 1/2 tsp
Pistachio Praline:
  • Pistachio without shell- 1 tbsp
  • Brown sugar- 2 tbsp
  • Lemon juice- 1 tsp
Method
For the Sponge:
  1. Melt the butter and keep it separately.
  2. Beat the eggs and sugar in a large bowl until it looks fluffy.
  3. Add the orange juice and zest, mix well.
  4. Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and almonds into the egg mixture.
  5. Fold gently without any lumps.
  6. Finally fold the butter into the mixture.
  7. Grease 4 ramekins with butter and dust it with flour. Pour the mixture equally into the ramekins.
  8. Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius.
  9. Take a large tray, fill with boiling water and then place the ramekins inside that.
  10. Bake it in the preheated oven for 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Note: The cooking time might vary according to the size of the dish you are using.
For Butterscotch sauce:
  1. Heat together butter, sugar and honey in a heavy based pan in medium to low heat.
  2. Once everything is melted completely, heat it for 2 to 3 minutes stirring continuously.
  3. Take it off from heat, add the extract and cream little by little, stirring continuously.
For Pistachio Praline:
  1. Heat the pistachio, sugar and lemon juice in a pan, stirring continuously.
  2. When it reaches a consistency of 1 string consistency, take it off from heat and pour it in a baking parchment paper.
  3. After it hardens, bash it with a rolling pin to crumble into pieces.
Note: To check the one string consistency, wet your hands with cold water. Take a small amount of syrup between your two fingers, when you press and release, you should see a small thread between your two fingers.
To Serve:
Place the sponge in individual serving plates, pour the warm sauce on top. Finally top it up with pistachio praline.
To enjoy the real taste of this dessert, serve while they are still warm
Additional Notes:
  • You can replace brown sugar with caster sugar for sponge.
  • For the butterscotch sauce, you can use caster sugar and brown sugar mixed.
  • For the praline also you can replace with caster sugar.

 

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