Sticky Toffee and Date Pudding
20-25 minutes Preparation
1 1/2 hours Cooking
Serves 4
By The Pudding Club
A Pudding Club favourite
Ingredients
45g margarine
45g light brown sugar
75g dates, chopped
100ml hot water
180g Plain Flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
¾ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
¾ teaspoon vanilla essence
1 egg
Sauce
15g butter
60g mixed dark & light brown sugar
65ml double cream
Method
Melt sauce ingredients together and put in to the base of a greased 1.1litre pudding bowl.
Put chopped dates in the hot water, add baking powder, vanilla essence and bicarbonate of soda, leave to soak for 10 minutes.
Cream together margarine and sugars, beat in the egg gradually. Add dates, water and flour and mix well (the mixture will be very liquid).
Pour mixture on to the sauce, cover and steam for 1.5 hours.
The sauce and sponge mixture mix together during cooking.