This sticky toffee date pudding recipe is right up there with some of the best dessert recipes. The hot toffee sauce together with the moist pudding is just delicious.
Ingredients
- 1 cup of dates, pitted and chopped
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)
- 1 cup of water
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 1/2 cups of self-raising flour, sifted
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- 1 cup of brown sugar
Toffee Sauce
- 1 cup of brown sugar
- 3/4 cup of whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
- 2 tablespoons of butter
Cooking Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C)
Combine the dates and baking soda in a small bowl and mix well.
Boil one cup of water in a kettle and pour the boiling water over the top of the mixture. Set aside.
Add the butter and sugar in a bowl and mix together thoroughly until you have a cream consistency.
Fold in the flour which you have sifted. Folding simply refers to using a wooden spoon to lift the mixture from the bottom of the bowl and turning it over. Do this once, turn the bowl a little bit and repeat this same process until all the ingredients in the mix are fully incorporated.
Stir in the date mixture which you set aside, and pour into a cake tin.
Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
To make the toffee sauce. Combine the sugar, cream, vanilla essence and butter into a saucepan over a low heat, and simmer for 5 minutes.
Slice the pudding and place in a serving plate, with the toffee sauce poured over the top.
