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Tasty Apprentice
Hello everyone, I'm thrilled to share with you our famous dessert that has been cherished in my family special recipe, the Sticky Toffee Pudding. This delightful treat isn't only a type of the sweets, but it is the heritage of our family's kitchen traditions, knitted together with love and care by generation after generation. Sticky toffee pudding, a well-known delicacy from "good old England", North West, consists of chopped dates in moist sponge cake added with toffee sauce. We can have it either with custard or ice cream, often creamed ones, with vanilla being the most common.
But be patient, I will tell you step-by-step and you will be able to share your joy with this wonderful dessert! Through the making of this particular recipe you will discover that it is a great thing to add to your cooking repertoire as well. Let's go for fish eating and make some sweet memories.
INGREDIENTS:
Toffee Sauce
Cake
INSTRUCTION:
Toffee Sauce
Cake
Spoon a tablespoon of toffee sauce into each ramekin.
Place bottom cake layers back in ramekins, cut side up.
Add more toffee sauce and top with remaining cake layers.
Spoon more toffee sauce over the cakes and bake for 10 minutes until bubbly.
And enjoy your own Sticky toffee pudding!
But be patient, I will tell you step-by-step and you will be able to share your joy with this wonderful dessert! Through the making of this particular recipe you will discover that it is a great thing to add to your cooking repertoire as well. Let's go for fish eating and make some sweet memories.
INGREDIENTS:
Toffee Sauce
- 2 1/2 cups heavy cream, divided
- 1 stick unsalted butter (4 ounces)
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1 cup granulated sugar
Cake
- 6 ounces pitted dates (about 7 dates), preferably Medjool
- 3/4 cup water
- 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 pinch of kosher salt
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, plus more for greasing ramekins
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Vanilla ice cream or lightly sweetened whipped cream, for serving
INSTRUCTION:
Toffee Sauce
- Combine 1 1/4 cups of cream, butter, corn syrup, and sugar in a saucepan.
- Boil until it turns into a deep amber caramel (about 40 minutes).
- Whisk in the remaining cream and strain the sauce.
Cake
- Simmer dates in water until soft (about 15 minutes), then puree in a food processor.
- Preheat oven to 350ยฐF and butter six 4-ounce ramekins.
- Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
- Beat butter and brown sugar until fluffy, then add egg, vanilla, and date puree.
- Mix in the dry ingredients at low speed.
- Pour batter into ramekins and bake for 20 minutes until done.
- Let cakes cool slightly, then trim the tops level with the ramekins.
- Invert cakes onto a rack and slice each in half horizontally.
Spoon a tablespoon of toffee sauce into each ramekin.
Place bottom cake layers back in ramekins, cut side up.
Add more toffee sauce and top with remaining cake layers.
Spoon more toffee sauce over the cakes and bake for 10 minutes until bubbly.
And enjoy your own Sticky toffee pudding!