Sauce
310 ml heavy/35% cream
250 ml maple syrup
55 g brown sugar
Cake
115 g all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
85 g sugar
60 ml canola oil
2.5 ml vanilla
1 egg
90 ml milk
Sauce
With the rack in the middle position, preheat the oven to 350°F/180°Cm
In a small pot, bring all of the ingredients to a boil while whisking. Simmer over medium heat for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat.
Cake
In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt.
In another bowl, whisk together the sugar, oil, vanilla and egg with an electric mixer. With the machine running on low speed, add the dry ingredients alternating with the milk. Spread the batter out in an 8-inch (20 cm) square pan. Delicately pour the sauce over the cake.
Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean. Let cool on a wire rack.