A traditional, easy to make, English sticky toffee pudding with a sponge date cake topped with a homemade toffee sauce! Yum!
Sticky toffee pudding it a British dessert consisting of a date sponge cake topped with a toffee sauce! You really can’t go wrong taking an already moist and tender cake and smothering it is a toffee sauce and optionally topping it with vanilla ice cream or even custard! The interesting thing about the English sticky toffee pudding is the fact that one of the main ingredients of the cake is dates, that are chopped, soaked until tender and then pureed. The pureed dates help keep the cake super moist and add a ton of flavour along with sweetness. I am a huge fan of caramel sauces but the toffee sauce here gives it a run for it’s money! Compared to a caramel sauce this toffee sauce is so easy to make, you simply simmer cream, butter, brown sugar, syrup and molasses until everything melts and thickens a bit with no worrying about burning the caramel! The use of the brown sugar and the addition of the molasses gives the toffee sauce a ton of flavour that is simply magical and it goes so well with the date sponge cake. This sticky toffee pudding is the perfect dessert to impress and especially fitting for a holiday treat!
ingredients
For the date pudding:
8 ounces dried dates, pitted and chopped
1 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons butter, room temperature
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon molasses
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