Tomalito – Sweet Corn Pudding or Cake

Description

This is that sweet corn pudding-type stuff they serve in Mexican restaurants like Chevy’s. Yum! Serve using an ice cream scoop to get a nice round look. Be sure to share even though that will be REALLY hard to do!

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter, softened
  • ⅓ cup masa harina
  • ¼ cup water
  • 2 cups frozen corn, thawed, divided
  • ¼ cup cornmeal
  • ⅓ cup white sugar
  • 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
  2. Beat butter in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat masa harina and water into creamed butter until smooth.
  3. Place 1 cup corn in a blender; blend until smooth. Stir blended corn
  4. remaining 1 cup corn
  5. and cornmeal into masa harina mixture.
  6. Mix sugar
  7. cream
  8. baking powder
  9. and salt together in a separate bowl. Pour sugar mixture into corn mixture; stir to combine. Spoon corn batter into an ungreased 8-inch square baking dish. Smooth the top of the batter with a spatula. Cover dish with aluminum foil.
  10. Fill a 9×13-inch casserole dish 1/3 full of hot water. Place the covered 8-inch square dish into the water.
  11. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean
  12. 50 to 60 minutes. Remove 8×8-inch dish from water bath and let cool for 10 minutes.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 50 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Servings: 8

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