Golden Syrup Dumplings
Australian baked golden syrup dumplings, sitting in a buttery syrup sauce — proper winter comfort food. Dropping the soft dough straight into the hot, bubbling sauce rather than a cold one is what starts cooking the dumplings immediately, letting them puff up light rather than sinking and turning dense.
Ingredients
Instructions
Make sauce: combine butter, brown sugar, golden syrup and water in a deep ovenproof dish. Place in 200°C oven to melt while making dumplings.
Make dumplings: rub butter into flour.
Mix milk and golden syrup, stir into flour to a soft dough.
Remove hot sauce from oven.
Drop spoonfuls of dough into the hot sauce.
Bake uncovered 25 minutes until dumplings are golden.
Serve with vanilla ice cream.
Nutrition (estimated)
Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.