Sticky Toffee Pudding

Sticky toffee pudding..sticky toffee pudding, sticky toffee pudding…
I like the way these words sound when you say it over and over. The first time I heard about sticky toffee pudding was from a food network show, SCOOP!; it’s a contest for a new flavor of Hagen Dazs ice cream. I only caught the last part of that series, where only 3 contestants were left and of course the winner was ..you guessed it, sticky toffee pudding ( all three finalists sound and look equally delicious to me, though).

I’ve never heard of this pudding before but it sounds delicious to me, so I immediately went online to search for a good recipe. I found lots, but I settled for this one from BBC Food because it seemed easy enough but I never get to making it until, well, just last week.

The only hard part here is converting the measurements of ingredients.
I baked mine in mini-fluted pans that I recently purchased and I added grated chocolate to the toffee sauce, I can’t help it, I must have chocolates, it still tasted like toffee though..

I didn’t change anything else in the recipe.. I also already included the conversion and a substitution so you won’t have to search for it any more.

So without further ado, here’s the recipe for…

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Sticky Toffee Pudding

Sticky, gooey and yummy!

Servings 6 -8

Author adapted from Olive Magazine (October 2005 issue)

Ingredients

• 200 g 7 ounces dried dates , stoned and chopped. Buy Medjool if you can
• 250 ml 1 cup black tea (not too strong) ( I used darjeeling black tea)
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda it's actually baking soda
• 85 g 3 ounces unsalted butter , softened
• 175 g 6 ounces self-raising flour *
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• 175 g 6 ounces golden caster sugar
• 2 eggs beaten
• FOR THE TOFFEE SAUCE
• 100 g 3.5 ounces light muscovado sugar
• 100 g 3.5 ounces unsalted butter
• 142 ml carton double cream
• * 2 ounces grated bittersweet chocolate optional

Instructions

• 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.
• * If using, add grated chocolates, stir until chocolates are melted.
• Cut the pudding into squares and serve with the warm sauce and a scoop of vanilla ice cream ( you don't really need this)
• Enjoy!

Notes

Self-raising flour is quite hard to find, so I just used this substitution: For 1 cup self-raising flour substitute 1 cup all-purpose flour plus 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp baking soda, sift twice to incorporate then measure only what you need.