STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING!
Moist sponge with a gooey toffee sauce, sticky toffee pudding is top 2 desserts and it ain’t 2!
Issue #10 of Unfiltered Flavours+! Welcome back!
Trust and believe, if there’s sticky toffee pudding on the menu I’m ordering it. It doesn’t matter if it’s winter or summer, I want it! Now that it’s officially autumn, it feels more socially acceptable to have a sticky toffee pudding though. I served this one with a vanilla bean ice cream, the recipe for that is here! The only thing I did differently was leave out the food colouring
Flavours and ingredients
There’s a few things that truly make a sticky toffee pudding for me and you aren’t using dates, we can’t be mates. I will say though, If there’s one thing I hate, it’s big old chunks of dates in a sticky toffee pudding. It’s like biting into a cookie and seeing loads of raisins.I highly recommend you just blend or mash them up. Dates help to make a really moist and rich sticky toffee pudding and it’s truly not a sticky toffee pudding without them. Medjool dates are my go to, they’re sweet, taste like caramel and have a chewy texture
The sugar you use, massively contributes towards the richness and colour of your pudding. Brown sugar gives sticky toffee pudding the depth of flavour and strong caramel notes. I like to use a mixture of light and dark brown muscovado sugar along with black treacle. If you can get hold of straight up molasses, thats even better than using black treacle!
I use tea to soak my dates, I’ve always thought that water makes sense but where you can addle subtle layers of flavours easily then you should. I use Yorkshire tea, because it’s the best tea!
A it comes to flour I personally like to use self raising flour, it’s what I’ve always used. Self raising flour is just pre mixed with baking powder. If you’re hell bent on using plain flour, simply add 1 tsp of baking powder for every 150g of plain flour. I would like to mention here that baking powder and baking soda are not the same thing as this is me giving you a warning, don’t get them confused!
You can bake these in little individual pudding moulds or use a 8” x 8” square cake tin. I hop and jump between the two depending on my mood. If you’re using moulds, I would suggest halving the recipe unless you want 15 puddings…
I usually have a lot to say about my recipes nut sticky toffee pudding is so easy to make. You can use a stand mixer but you don’t need one. The sticky toffee sauce comes together in a matter of minutes. Once you know how to make it, sticky. Toffee pudding is one of the easiest things to make.
Ingredients:
225g dates (pits removed)
225ml hot tea (use 1-2 tea bags)