Sticky Date Pudding With Toffee Caramel Sauce - Rich, Moist And Irresistible

          

Spread joy and warmth around, during any festive season with this beautiful dessert!

The perfect combination of the richness of dates and the sticky sweetness of the toffee sauce make this dessert rich, moist, and totally irresistible! 

Make this on the previous day, allowing all the flavours and juices to infuse properly.  Serve the daintily-cut, triangle cake pieces in a pool of toffee caramel sauce.

Ingredients needed:

Note: Opt for good quality soft and wet dates as dry Tunisian type of dates are not suitable for this recipe.

250g    (1cup)        Dates - destoned

150g    (1cup)        Self Raising flour

150g    (1cup)        Brown sugar

2                            Eggs

65g    (1/4cup)      Margarine

1tsp                       Bicarb powder

1cup                      Water

3 pinches               Salt

1/4tsp                    Lemon juice    

1/4tsp                    vanilla For the caramel sauce 3tbsp     Brown sugar 3tbsp     Butter 3tbsp     Double/Heavy cream 1pinch   Salt

  Let’s make it;

• Drop the dates and sugar into a heavy bottom pan. Cut the dates into small pieces if they are hard

• Pour water and boil for up to 5mins.  Immediately add bicarbonate powder. Boil 10mins

• Next, add margarine and give a good mix. Turn the flame off and leave the pan to cool off a bit before adding the eggs

• Beat the 2 eggs with a fork or the balloon mixer and add  

• Tip the flour little by little while mixing 

• Now, add lemon juice, salt, vanilla and mix with a spatula until everything combines properly

• Pour the batter onto a round cake tray (line up the tray with parchment paper or rub butter and dust with flour

• Bake in the lower rack of the oven for 25 mins under 180C degrees 

• After 20 mins stab a skewer and if it comes clean the cake is done.  If not, keep it in the oven for a little longer

• Keep it to cool off in the tray and take it out gently

• Now stab the cake with a skewer in several places
• Leave aside to cool off completely

How to make toffee caramel sauce

      

Ingredients need for the caramel sauce

3tbsp     Brown sugar
3tbsp     Butter
3tbsp     Double/Heavy cream
1pinch   Salt

• Drop all the ingredients into a small pan
• Boil
• Then simmer gently  for a few minutes until the liquid turns out to be a slightly thick runny sauce
• Your sauce is ready!

Serve

• Slice the cake into triangle shapes
• Place a triangle piece on a serving plate
• Pour sauce over and serve it in a pool of sauce and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top
• Yum Yum!

Boil all the ingredients together for 4-5mins

 

Simmer a minute or two until a silky sauce is formed

 A perfect treat for Christmas time!