Sticky Toffee Pudding
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Sticky toffee pudding is a British dessert that consists in a moist date-based sponge cake, fully covered with a toffee sauce. It is traditionally served with vanilla ice-cream or vanilla custard.
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Ingredients
For the sponge cake
- 1¼ cup chopped dried pitted dates
- ¾ cup boiling water
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter , softened
- 2 tablespoons black treacle (molasses)
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 knob butter (to grease the baking dish)
For the sauce
- ½ cup unsalted butter , softened
- 1½ cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon black treacle (molasses)
- ¾ cup heavy cream
Equipment
- Baking dish (11x8 inches / 24 x 28 cm)
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat the oven to 350 F / 180 C.
- Lightly grease the baking dish.
- Add the dates, boiling water and baking soda into a bowl. Stir and set aside for 10 minutes.
- Whip the butter and black treacle together in a stand mixer until well incorporated.
- Add the sugar and mix again.
- Add an egg and keep beating until incorporated, then add the other egg and continue beating to incorporate.
- Reduce the speed, then add the flour and baking powder until obtaining a thick smooth batter.
- Pour the chopped dates and their liquid into the batter, then beat gently to incorporate.
- Pour the batter into the baking dish.
- Bake in the pre-heated oven for 35 minutes.
Sauce
- Melt the butter, brown sugar and treacle in a saucepan over very low heat.
- Stir gently until everything is melted.
- Then stir in the heavy cream, and increase the heat.
- When it starts bubbling, take the saucepan off the heat.
- As the cake is out of the oven, prick the pudding with a fork all over its surface.
- Pour about a third of the sauce over, making sure that the sponge cake is entirely covered.
- Put a lid on the remaining sauce in the pan to keep it warm.
- Set the pudding aside for 30 minutes.
- Serve with vanilla ice cream or custard, and the rest of the toffee sauce.
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