Best Sticky Date Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce | Toffee Pudding

best sticky date pudding cake dessert with butterscotch sauce and ice cream, English toffee pudding

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Best Sticky Date Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce | Toffee Pudding

Sticky Date Pudding or Sticky Toffee Pudding is a classic and rich, addictive moist sponge cake made using dates which are then covered with butterscotch sauce or toffee sauce and served with vanilla ice cream or vanilla custard.

Sticky Date Pudding is one of the best dessert recipes you can make for Valentine's day, Date night dinner, Easter, Christmas, or Thanksgiving holidays.

Prep Time15

Cook Time35

Total Time50

Course: Desserts, sweets

Cuisine: Australian, British, New zealand

Servings:

Calories: 453kcal

Author: Kushi

Equipment

Pudding moulds
Bread loaf pan

Ingredients

Sticky Date Pudding or Sticky Toffee Pudding

1 cup Dates
1 ½ cups Water
1 teaspoon Baking soda
110 grams Butter (1 stick)
½ cup Brown sugar
2 Eggs
¼ teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
¾ cup Dark molasses
2 cups All purpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder

Butterscotch Sauce

1 cup Brown sugar
5 tablespoon Butter (80 g)
200 ml Heavy cream
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon Salt

Instructions

Mash Dates

Finely chop the dates, add them to the pan with water, and bring them to a boil. Add baking soda, mix and switch off the flame. Lightly mash the dates. Keep this aside. Check out the full video on making here.
1 cup Dates, 1 ½ cups Water, 1 teaspoon Baking soda

Make Pudding Batter

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C.
In a bowl, add butter and sugar, and cream them together using a hand-held mixer. Add egg, salt, vanilla extract, and molasses and mix until well combined.
110 grams Butter (1 stick), ½ cup Brown sugar, 2 Eggs, ¼ teaspoon Salt, 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract, ¾ cup Dark molasses
Add mashed dates from above and mix.
Add flour and baking powder and mix just until combined. Do not overmix.
2 cups All purpose flour, 1 teaspoon Baking powder
Pour the batter into 6 pudding molds and 1 bread loaf pan. Or use an 8-inch by 8-inch baking pan.
Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes.

How to make Butterscotch Sauce or Toffee Sauce

In a pan on medium flame, add sugar, butter, cream, and vanilla extract, and simmer for about 8 minutes.
1 cup Brown sugar, 5 tablespoon Butter (80 g), 200 ml Heavy cream, 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Once it comes to a simmer, add salt and mix well. Switch off the flame.
¼ teaspoon Salt
Remove the pudding from the oven after 25 minutes and let it sit for 5 minutes.
Using chopsticks or skewers, poke holes in the baked pudding. Poking holes is optional! Pour the sauce over the pudding and serve!

Video

Notes

Adjust the baking time depending on the size of the baking pan.

Toffee sauce or butterscotch sauce will start to thicken as it cools. Once you have prepared the sauce, let it sit for a few minutes, but you will have to pour them on the pudding while it is still warm. In case it becomes very thick, you can thin it down by reheating it on the stovetop before pouring over the pudding.

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