Light as air and deliciously sweet, these individual sponge puddings are comfort food to impress. For this recipe you will need four individual pudding moulds, a steamer and kitchen string.

For the sponge, butter a 1.2 litre/2 pint heatproof ... Place on top of the pudding bowl and secure with string. Take a long piece of foil and fold to make a long strip which will form a handle.

You can keep the sponge in place with rubber bands, sturdy string, zip ties ... If the handle is long, you could use two ...