Sticky toffee pudding

Sticky toffee pudding

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Cooking time

Prep: 20 mins Cook: 30 mins

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 8

A sticky treat that the kids and adults alike will love - it has a lovely natural toffee flavour

Nutrition and extra info

Additional info

  • Vegetarian
Nutrition info

Nutrition per serving

kcalories
557
protein
5.1g
carbs
69.6g
fat
30.7g
saturates
18g
fibre
1.7g
sugar
-
salt
0.29g

Ingredients

  • 200g dried dates, stoned and chopped. Buy Medjool if you can

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Method

  1. Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Put the dates and tea in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Cook for 3–4 minutes to soften the dates. Stir in the bicarbonate of soda.
  2. Beat the butter and caster sugar together with electric beaters until pale and creamy, then beat in the egg, flour and mixed spice. Fold in the date mixture and pour into a buttered ovenproof dish or brownie tin. Bake for 30–35 minutes or until the top is just firm to touch.
  3. Meanwhile, make the sauce by putting the sugar, butter and cream in a pan over a low heat and simmer until the sugar has dissolved. Cook until the sauce is a lovely toffee colour. Cut the pudding into squares and serve with the warm sauce and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Recipe from olive magazine, October 2005

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nollafyzzil's picture
5

Lovely soft cake, very simple. Made a mistake but it was easy to rectify. The sauce is tasty enough to drink too!

gliderpup's picture
5

Best Sticky toffee pudding ever! I make it in batches and freeze it to give to my parents and they love it !!
Add a bit of black treacle to the sauce to make it rich and darker!!

caroleyne's picture
5

So quick and easy to make that I made it on a Thursday evening after finishing work! My son loved it! Made some custard to go with it instead of the sauce and didnt have any mixed spice so missed that out but still tasted delicious. Will definitely be making this again!!

caroleyne's picture
5

So quick and easy to make that I made it on a Thursday evening after finishing work! My son loved it! Made some custard to go with it instead of the sauce and didnt have any mixed spice so missed that out but still tasted delicious. Will definitely be making this again!!

cambridgehelen's picture

This recipe is soooo easy and absolutely delicious!!
I made it all the day before, stored in the fridge and microwaved for 30-40 seconds on the night. Simple.... Would defo make again.

jewel185's picture
5

This recipe was amazing. I found that this was the perfect quantity for 12 dinner party portions. I served the sauce as I served the cake. Great with good quality vanilla ice cream.

nims400's picture
5

Best sticky toffee pudding I ever tasted! I used prunes instead of dates as picked up the wrong things...am I the only one to get them mixed up? Worked really well though and nobody noticed

conkerqueen's picture
5

This is a seriously good cake. I threw in a handful of chopped walnuts and I was pretty lazy about how I chopped the dates but it is absolutely delicious. Very very moist even without the toffee sauce (that's too rich for my little ones). Will definitely make this again.

tothepass's picture

Absolutely super easy one to make, considering the usual recipe containing treacle and syrup. This definitely doesn't need anything else. I also doubled the quantity of sauce and served it with fresh custard and Mascapone whipped together. Decedent, but oh so good.

swaddell's picture
5

A great easy recipe. Tweaked it a little. Reduced the butter in the pudding down to 50g by adding 3 ripe mashed bananas which added a lovely flavour to the sponge. Some people comment that they dislike dates but you really don't taste them. I whizzed them in the food processor before adding to the rest of the ingredients. I didn't read the recipe properly so I put all the sponge ingredients in together and whizzed them. Worked out fine! I also didn't make the toffee sauce and used Carnation Caramel heated up. Easy!!

bridget52's picture
4

Made this for the first time for friends! Huge success and so easy! Have been asked for the recipe so a goos sign. I made extra sauce and added some to the pudding as suggested. A good tip. Will definitely have this on my future menus! You need to have a sweet tooth for the sauce though!!

smallishtree's picture
5

Very tasty. Best sticky toffee pudding I've ever had because there were no raisins in it! The (Medjool) Dates were lovely, not chewy or dry. The sauce is a must by the way. And... it really does feed 8.

abbyrees's picture
5

I cannot believe, this turned out just like a stick toffee pudding you would buy in a restaurant, if not better. Worth the effort and if it wasn't so high in calories I would make it every week, but I am afraid it will be just for special occasions.

buffalo_girluk's picture
5

Amazing dessert and so easy to make. Mine needed a bit longer in the oven than the recommended 35mins but i just kept it in until i could pul a knife out without anything sticking to it.

Drowned it in sauce by making double the amount. I can see this becoming a signature dessert!

starsan's picture
5

Made this for Mothers Day, used soft light brown sugar (all I had) and worked out fantastically, loved by everyone, will def make again.

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