[recipe servings=”6-12″ time=”1hr 15mins” difficulty=”Easy”]
[recipe-ingredients]
- 6 ounces pitted dates, chopped
- 1 cup water
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- **Toffee Sauce**
- 2 cups heavy cream
- ½ cup dark brown sugar
- 2½ tablespoons maple syrup
- Pinch salt
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- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line parchment paper on a 8½-inch baking dish.
- In a medium saucepan, heat the dates and water. Once the water begins to boil, remove from heat and stir in the baking soda. Set aside, but keep it slightly warm.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- In the bowl of a standing electric mixer, or by hand, beat the butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs, then the vanilla.
- Stir in half of the flour mixture, then the date mixture, then add the remaining flour mixture until just combined. Don’t overmix the batter.
- Pour batter into baking dish bake for 40-45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with moist crumbs attached.
- While that bakes, time to make the toffee sauce, combine all the toffee ingredients into a sauce pan.
- Bring it to a boil while stirring often to melt the sugar.
- Once boiled, lower the heat and simmer, Lower heat and simmer, stirring constantly for about 5 minutes, until the mixture is thick and coats the spoon. Set aside.
- Remove the pudding from the oven, and let cool slightly. Poke it with a ton of holes from something small like a cake tester.
- Pour a good amount of the toffee sauce onto the pudding and let it soak it in. Save at least half of the sauce.
- Server warm with additional toffee sauce on the side if preferred. Enjoy!
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Sticky Toffee Pudding is a British dessert that is popular in the UK. It’s a nice dessert with the it’s nice sweet toffee sauce a great compliment. Speaking of compliment, this is very nice along side some whipped cream and/or some ice cream. I slightly overcooked mine when I made this.. oops! as it turned more like a cake than pudding but still tasted pretty good. Overall it’s a good dessert and tasted great.
