Steaming the pudding keeps it wonderfully moist and it's easy to vary the flavours. Try our delicious recipes for syrup sponge pudding, toffee apple and treacle sponge pudding.

Try the Hairy Bikers’ recipe for a classic steamed syrup sponge, simple to make and guaranteed to impress. For this recipe you will need a 1.2 litre/2 pint pudding basin.

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.

This irresistibly light and buttery steamed sponge pudding is easy to make, as is the rich honey butterscotch sauce to serve alongside it.

Generously grease a 900ml/1½ pints pudding basin with butter, then chill in the fridge for 4-5 minutes. When the basin is chilled, drizzle the golden syrup into the base of the basin.

A simple steamed syrup sponge, treacle pudding is guaranteed to please. Steam traditionally or microwave in 5 minutes.

This steamed pudding is comforting and so simple. What’s more, it’s finished with proper custard.

This decadent chocolate pudding has a light-as-a-feather sponge topped with a rich chocolate sauce.

This treacle steamed pudding is a deceptively easy recipe that will go down well with everyone you serve it to. For this recipe, you will need a terrine mould and a lidded saucepan large …

Try the Hairy Bikers’ recipe for jam roly-poly. It's an easy homemade version of a childhood classic. Serve with plenty of custard.