I like desserts, especially a good number of sweet things. Recently I was offered the opportunity to try a dessert that I hadn’t heard of before – Kari’s Malva Pudding.
ABOUT KARI’S MALVA PUDDING
Handmade in Aptos California by the Mansfeld Family. Kari started making her favorite Malva puddings for friends and family when they came over for dinner and after being told enough times that she should make them and sell them she decided to do just that. Each Malva uses only the freshest and best local ingredients including cage-free eggs from the Glaum chicken ranch just up the road and fresh apricot jam from the local farmer’s market with no corn syrup in it. Kari and her family have been making each Kari’s Malva Pudding for the past year and a half in their home town of Aptos, California. Each Malva Pudding is hand poured and packaged and frozen while fresh to lock in the homemade taste. Very easy to defrost and reheat and pass off as your own delicious creation. Top with candied pecans or a couple of fresh berries for a beautiful and delicious treat.
Traditionally, Malva Pudding is served warm with a little warm custard in winter and warm with a little ice cream in the summer. It is great all year, but even better when you have a couple of friends over for an easy dinner. Malva Pudding is the favorite dessert of Nelson Mandela. Art Smith, Oprah Winfrey’s personal chef, served Malva Pudding during the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy’s first Christmas dinner. Although it is a pudding, it is not like a chocolate pudding, or a baked fruit pudding. It is more like a cake, a moist and delicious cake, moist like a tres leches, but an entirely different flavor – lighter and more caramelly.
MY THOUGHTS
I received samples of Kari’s Malva Pudding and Kari’s Chocolate Malva Pudding. They’re called pudding but they’re really cake. The texture of Malva Pudding is far moister then a traditional cake, but not just wet like pudding – it’s super moist, almost wet, cake. The flavor is rich and on the heavy side, and is very tasty when paired with ice cream. Kari’s Malva Pudding comes frozen in a disposable aluminum pan.I tried it both warm and cold, I preferred the taste when warm. These aren’t typical desserts, these are the type of desserts you find on restaurant menus. if you’re in the mood for something different give Kari’s Malva Pudding a try.
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