No, it's not what you're thinking. This is better!! It's a recipe for Sticky Date Pudding! It's essentially a vanilla-flavored date cake that, when draped with a buttery brown sauce, transforms to what we would otherwise call Sticky Toffee Pudding. I quite prefer mine without the sauce, which I find cloyingly sweet. Instead, I had this with a dollop of home-whipped cream and didn't miss the sauce one bit!Sticky Date Pudding
serves 6-8
1½ cups of pitted dates
1 tsp baking soda
1¼ tsp baking soda
1¼ boiling water
3 ounces of butter
1 cup of brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 orange, zested and juiced
2 eggs
1 cup flour
optional: a dash or two of cinnamon and nutmeg
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Butter a 9 by 9-inch baking pan
- In a small bowl, cover the coarsely chopped dates with the boiling water. Add the baking soda and let stand for 15 minutes
- In a medium bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add in spices, vanilla, orange zest & juice and eggs - one at a time - while beating well
- Sift flour and add in baking powder
- Stir in the butter mixture
- Gently fold in the date mixture (the mixture will closely resemble pancake batter)
- Transfer mixture to the pan and bake for 40 minutes
- Let stand to cool
