Quick Mix Steamed Upside-Down Pudding (using chocolate cake mix)
Newsgroup: rec.food.recipes/Helen Peagram
Yield: 8 Servings

1 pkg yellow cake mix
3/4 cup milk
1 egg
2 tbsp butter, softened
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 slice pineapple or dried apricots, soaked or candied cherries or blanched almonds

Mix butter with brown sugar and spread in bottom of pudding mold. Add fruit or nuts of choice. Prepare the cake mix with the egg and milk or water according to directions on package. Pour into a greased 2 to 2 1/2 qt pudding mold over fruit/nut mixture and cover with a lid, foil o greased double wax paper. Place the mold in a sauce pan of boiling water and keep the level of the water half way up mold during cooking. Steam for 1 1/2 hours. Unmold the pudding while hot and serve with cream, ice cream, or custard.

NOTE: When cooking for smaller numbers, make up the whole cake mix as directed, put pour only half the cake batter into a 1 1/2 qt mold and steam for 1 hour. Alternately, fill individual molds and steam for 20-25 minutes. Bake remaining cake batter.