Rich Man, Poor Man

     Last week I mentioned having Pouding Chomeur for dessert while in Montreal.  Sometimes called "Poor Man's Pudding"  I looked up the recipe.  Scanning the ingredients I thought that it is certainly rich, containing butter, cream, brown sugar and maple syrup.  Here's the recipe if you'd like to make it yourself:

Pouding Chomeur

Ingredients

1/2 cup softened butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

2 cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 1/3 cups milk

1 1/2 cups pure maple sugar

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream (35%)

1/3 cup butter

Directions

CAKE

In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, mix the butter and sugar until the mix is light.  Add eggs and vanilla and mix.

In another bowl, mix flour and baking powder.  Alternate flour mix and milk to the butter mix.  Pour into a 13"x 9" greased pan.

MAPLE SAUCE

In a large casserole, bring to boil the syrup, brown sugar, cream and butter and constantly stir.  Reduce heat and gently cook 2 minutes or till sauce has reduced a bit.

Pour sauce gently over cake.

Bake at 325F (160C) about 35 minutes or till cake is light brown and when toothpick inserted comes out clean.