Sticky toffee pudding
Cooking time
Prep: 20 mins Cook: 30 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 8A 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 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
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!!
