A soft date-studded cake served with warm toffee sauce and vanilla ice cream. Cosy, comforting, indulgent.
Sticky Toffee Pudding. The phrase its self is almost like music. I imagine this dessert present at one of the elaborate feasts described in a Harry Potter book. Partly because it’s an English classic and partly because I can imagine it nestled between treacle tarts and pumpkin pasties (desserts mentioned in the books- for some reason I tend to remember the food rather than the plot…no surprise there). Today, we’re going to make a sticky toffee pudding recipe that the House Elves surely used!
I had always known about sticky toffee pudding but never properly tried it until I visited my sister in Scotland for her graduation. And boy, was I missing a part of my life until then.
I probably say this about every dessert, but this is one of my favorites. It’s a soft cake full of warm flavors drenched in toffee sauce and served warm with cream or ice cream. Yes, you may need a workout afterwards, but so worth it.
Traditionally, the cake part of this dessert is prepared with dates. Although the date flavor is subtle, it does add a range of flavors that you never could have guessed. A necessary component to this dessert.
This recipe is similar to the sticky prune cake [1] I posted a while ago, similar flavor too, so I guess you could sub dates with prunes. But dates are way more luxurious and have a sweeter, richer flavor. So I’d go with the latter.
This dessert is a perfect addition to your holiday menu- and I believe it’s traditionally eaten around this time of the year as well. Can’t go wrong with warm, gooey cake, caramel and ice cream.
Let’s make this sticky toffee pudding recipe!
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On another note, this recipe was part of a Holiday collaboration with a number of other Youtubers that my Youtube bestie, Rachel from Kawaii Sweet World [9] put together. We thought it would be cool to bring the Youtube foodie community together in the spirit of giving (and making awesome Holiday-themed recipes). Each of us selected a charity/organisation to donate to. My choice was Doctors Without Borders [10] (Medécins Sans Frontières), an organization I’ve long admired.
MSF provides emergency medical aid to people in areas affected by conflict, by pandemics, or by natural disaster. Many of the volunteers and workers risk their lives in order to help those in need. If you feel compelled to donate or give to a worthy organization this Christmas, maybe you might consider contributing to MSF [10]. For more details on the collaboration and other charities that members of the collaboration picked, check out my Youtube video [11] above or check out the playlist of videos [12] we put together 🙂
URLs in this post:
[1] sticky prune cake: https://www.hotchocolatehits.com/2013/08/pioneer-womans-inys-prune-cake.html
[2] Print Recipe: https://hotchocolatehits.com/wprm_print/23407
[3] Pin Recipe: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/bookmarklet/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotchocolatehits.com%2F2016%2F12%2Fsticky-toffee-pudding.html%2F&media=https%3A%2F%2Fhotchocolatehits.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F12%2FScreenshot-2023-08-31-at-10.06.22.png&description=Sticky+Toffee+Pudding&is_video=false
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[5] Martha Stewart: http://www.marthastewart.com/964319/sticky-toffee-pudding-toffee-sauce
[6] Date and nut loaf cake: https://hotchocolatehits.com/2021/03/date-and-nut-loaf-cake.html/
[7] Vegan banoffee pie: https://hotchocolatehits.com/2017/11/vegan-banoffee-pie.html/
[8] Pear crumble: https://hotchocolatehits.com/2021/11/delicious-easy-pear-crumble.html/
[9] Kawaii Sweet World: http://kawaiisweetworld.com
[10] Doctors Without Borders: http://www.msf.org/
[11] Youtube video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-eYPxwdivA
[12] playlist of videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4DlM6_yIAAU8wQwGkd9iXJ_j7789IQtZ