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Sticky. Toffee. Pudding.
So what do you do when someone hands you a bag of ingredients and a recipe, and the title of the recipe is “Sticky Toffee Pudding”…? Hmm, let me see. You think about it for approximately a millisecond, then you go forth and create some sticky toffee goodness, that’s exactly what you do. This is no time for fooling around, April-induced or otherwise.  Sticky spoonful The bag of raw materials had come to me by way of my sister-in-law. She had procured the ingredients at the request of her daughter, who made this pudding for her folks at Christmas-time. After Christmas, the daughter returned from whence she had come, but some of the leftover ingredients, including not one, but two kinds of muscovado sugar remained. I expressed an interest in the remnants and so the remaining sticky toffee wherewithal made its way to me. And from me to you, ‘cos that’s the kind of girl I am. There remains little else to say, except that, while you can certainly substitute other unrefined brown sugars for either the light or dark muscovado, they do lend a nice treacly note, particularly so in the toffee sauce. But do play around with it. You’re allowed to, you know. And, finally, apropos of nothing much in particular, if you’ve ever wondered just how things look on my side of the Internet, you can take a looksee at where it mostly all happens here… Sticky Toffee Pudding I have no idea where this particular version of the recipe originated from, other than my niece, though it’s similar to many sticky toffee formulae out there in the Interweb. In any event, I ended up tweaking it slightly myself anyway, like putting kahlúa in the toffee sauce. I did like that particular tweak very much… In terms of general approach, Jenni would be proud of me for recognising the cake bit as an example of the creaming method and also, I think, for adding a touch of salt where there was none. For the cakey bit: 150g pitted dates 250ml water 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 75g unsalted butter 125g light muscovado sugar 2 eggs 2 tblsp golden syrup 1 tsp vanilla extract 200g plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 0.5 tsp salt For the sauce bit: 125g dark mucovado sugar 125g unsalted butter 180ml double cream pinch of salt 50 ml kahlúa (optional but lovely) You’ll also need: Baking tin - mine was about 26cm by 18cm and about 3cm deep. I feared the mixture might overflow the confines of this tin but it contained the mixture perfectly. The Steps: Preheat the oven to 180C and grease the baking tin well. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together well and set aside. Ensure all stones are removed from the dates, then chop them and place in a small saucepan with the water. Bring to a boil over a medium-high heat, then reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the golden syrup. Stir well to combine. Add the bicarbonate of soda - the mixture will froth up. Cream the butter until light and fluffy, then add the light muscovado sugar and cream together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and beat well to combine, then stir in the vanilla. Add half the flour and mix to combine. Then add the date mixture in 2 lots, stir to combine and finally mix in the rest of the flour until just combined. Scrape the mixture into the tin and bake for about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out fairly clean. To make the sauce, place the butter, dark muscovado sugar and salt in a small saucepan over a medium heat, stirring often as the butter melts and the sugar dissolves. Add the cream and (if using) kahlua, bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for about 5 minutes, stirring continuously and allowing the sauce to reduce and thicken. Serve warm slices of the pudding, spooned over with the warm toffee sauce. The Variations: Try stirring some kahlúa-soaked golden sultanas into the batter (as per the recipe for Bahlúa Bread). You could try using molasses or dark treacle instead of golden syrup in the cake. Different taste but equally nice I would think. I imagine that some ginger would work well in this - say about a teaspoon of dried ginger added to the flour or (as David Leibovitz did in his version), some chopped crystallised ginger stirred into the cake batter at the end. The Results: Around 8 portions of sticky toffeeness. related searches : Sticky
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