Sticky toffee pudding, the ideal recipe when you want to surprise your guests with a delicious dessert. A moist date sponge cake with homemade toffee sauce… need I say more?
Sticky toffee pudding cake
Sticky toffee pudding or sticky date pudding is a classic British dessert consisting of an incredibly moist cake with chopped dates, topped with a homemade sticky toffee sauce and often served with vanilla custard or a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Divinely delicious!
Best sticky toffee pudding
As well as being festive, this sticky toffee pudding is very easy to make. It is ideal after a delicious dinner, to treat yourself to at the weekend or around the holidays. Take my chocolat lava cake for example, equally festive and delicious.
This sticky toffee pudding has great depth of flavor and will leave you craving for more! For an extra decadent dessert, serve it warm with a scoop of ice cream. This iconic British dessert has definitely become one of my favorite desserts of all time..
The most delicious dessert
This is exactly one of those desserts that sounds very complicated but is surprisingly easy to make! The flavors are wonderfully balanced and this traditional, homemade British dessert is a very nice surprise for your dinner guests. It really is an all-rounder too, especially for the seasoned sweet tooth.
Sticky toffee pudding recipe
Time to make your own! First make the date cake with soaked dates and bake it in a square baking tin. While it is in the oven, make the toffee sauce. When the cake is cooked, poke holes in it and put half of the toffee sauce on top.
This will allow the toffee sauce to soak into the cake, making it deliciously moist and, of course, sticky. Are you hungry? Get started quickly!
Ingredients
- 300 gram Medjool dates (stones removed)
- 300 ml boiling water
- 100 gram butter (unsalted, roomtemperature)
- 50 gram dark brown sugar
- 3 eggs (medium)
- 200 gram all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 100 gram butter (unsalted)
- 250 gram dark brown sugar
- 150 ml whipping cream
Equipment
- Food processor or hand mixer
- Parchment paper
- Square baking tin
- Whisk
INSTRUCTIONS (how to make this recipe):
Make the cake
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius / 340 Fahrenheit top and bottom heat.
- Put the dates in a large bowl and pour the boiling water over them. Leave to soak for 10 minutes.
- Place the butter and sugar in a bowl and mix in a food processor or hand mixer for 5 minutes.
- Add the eggs, flour and baking powder and mix for a further 2 minutes.
- Mash the dates in the water and add to the mixture, mixing for a further 2 minutes.
- Line a square baking tin with baking paper, pour in the mixture and bake for about 40 minutes.
Make the toffee sauce
- Place the sugar and butter in a saucepan. Melt the butter and mix well.
- Add the cream and whisk, leave to boil gently for 2 minutes, then remove from the heat.
- When the cake is cooked, pierce it with a skewer or fork. Pour half of the sauce over the cake and leave to soak in. Cut the cake into slices and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and extra toffee sauce. Enjoy!
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