Ingredients

• 300 g - flour
• 120 g - butter
• 2 cups - milk
• 3 cups - castor sugar
• 12 tsp - condensed milk
• 6 bananas
• 2 oranges
• 2 - apples
• 10 g - pistachios
• 2 tsp - vanilla essence
• 2 tsp - strawberry essence
• 1/2 tsp - red colour
• 1/2 tsp - yellow colour
• 2 tsp - baking powder
• 1/2 tsp - soda bi-carbonate
• a pinch salt

How to Make Quick Fruit Pudding

• Combine together melted butter, milk, condensed milk, vanilla essence and yellow colour. Beat well.
• Sieve flour, soda bi-carb, baking powder, salt and add to the beaten mixture.
• Grease and dust a baking tin and pour batter into it.
• Bake at 180 C or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
• Cool it for 5 mins. before turning out onto a wire rack for further cooling.
• Cut into half horizontally. Remove top layer.
• Whip cream, castor sugar, strawberry essence and red food colour until thick.
• Spread cream on the bottom layer.
• Add chopped fruit then the cream and finally place back the top layer.
• Decorate the top of the pudding with cream and chopped pistachios.
• Leave for 20 mins to set before serving.