Sticky Date Pudding With Toffee Sauce And Vanilla Bean Ice Cream Recipes

STICKY DATE PUDDING WITH TOFFEE SAUCE

Steps:

• Make pudding:
• Preheat oven to 375°F. and butter and flour an 8-inch square baking pan (2 inches deep), knocking out excess flour.
• Coarsely chop dates and in a 1 1/2- to 2-quart saucepan simmer dates in water, uncovered, 5 minutes. Remove pan from heat and stir in baking soda. (Mixture will foam.) Let mixture stand 20 minutes.
• While mixture is standing, into a bowl sift together flour, baking powder, ginger, and salt. In a large bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour mixture in 3 batches, beating after each addition until just combined. Add date mixture and with a wooden spoon stir batter until just combined well.
• Pour batter into baking pan and set pan in a larger baking pan. Add enough hot water to larger pan to reach halfway up sides of smaller pan and bake in middle of oven until a tester comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Remove smaller pan from water bath and cool pudding to warm on a rack.
• Make sauce while pudding is cooling:
• In a 1 1/2- to 2-quart heavy saucepan melt butter over moderate heat and add brown sugar. Bring mixture to a boil, stirring occasionally, and stir in cream and vanilla. Simmer sauce, stirring occasionally, until thickened slightly, about 5 minutes. Cool sauce to warm.
• Cut warm pudding into squares. Serve pudding with ice cream and warm sauce.

STICKY DATE PUDDING WITH TOFFEE SAUCE RECIPE - (4.6/5)

Steps:

• Remove pits from dates and finely chop them into small pieces. Transfer to a bowl and pour boiling water over. Allow them to stand for about 30 minutes until cool, then mash roughly with a fork and stir in the vanilla bean paste. Butter and flour eight 8x7-centimeter mini pudding moulds and set them aside. Preheat oven to 356°F. Mix flour and bicarbonate of soda in a dry bowl. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar together for a few minutes until slightly creamy (mixture will be grainy from the sugar). Beat eggs in a separate bowl and add them into the butter-sugar mixture a little at a time, beating well between additions. Next, beat in the black treacle, then gently fold in one-third of the flour and half of the milk with a spatula. Repeat until all the flour and milk is used. Be careful not to over-mix. Gently stir in the dates. You will achieve a soft and thick batter. Divide batter between the moulds, leaving a gap from the rim to allow space for the puddings to rise. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until risen and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. While the puddings are baking, make toffee sauce. Combine sugar, butter and half the cream in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil, stirring regularly until the sugar has dissolved. Stir in the black treacle, turn up the heat slightly and allow the mixture to bubble away for 2-3 minutes until it is a rich toffee color, stirring occasionally to make sure it doesn't burn. Remove from heat and stir in the rest of the cream. When the puddings are ready, remove them from the oven and leave aside until cool enough to touch. Trim off excess and run a palette knife along the insides of the tins to loosen them. To serve, drizzle the toffee sauce over the puddings or soak them in the sauce overnight for stickier puddings. Spoil yourself further with an indulgent scoop of ice cream and a tuile wheel! Dig in!

STICKY DATE PUDDING WITH TOFFEE SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180*C/375*F.
• Combine dates and baking soda in a heatproof bowl.
• Pour over 250ml of boiling water.
• Set dates aside till room temperature.
• Cream together butter and sugar in a large bowl till pale.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating until smooth.
• Fold in flour then stir in date mixture, including the water.
• Pour mixture into greased and floured 8 inch deep cake pan and bake for 30-45 minutes until cooked through; set aside for a couple of minutes before turning out.
• To make sauce, combine all ingredients over low heat, stirring until butter has melted.
• Simmer for 5 minutes.
• Serve hot!

STICKY DATE PUDDING WITH TOFFEE SAUCE AND VANILLA BEAN ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Soak the dates in hot water for 1 hour.
• Beat together the brown sugar and butter.
• Slowly, add eggs, one at a time, beating well.
• Sift together flour, baking powder and baking soda.
• Strain the dates and place in a food processor- process until chunky.
• Add the water back to the dates.
• Fold this into the butter mixture alternately with the flour.
• Pipe into moulds and steam for 15 minutes for small, individual moulds or 30-35 minutes for larger moulds.
• If you don't have a steamer, place moulds in a water bath and cover with foil before placing in the oven.
• Bake at 180C for approximately 20-30 minutes or until done.
• Serve warm with toffee sauce and vanilla ice-cream (Haagen Daaz is a good brand if you are not making your own).
• Preparation of toffee sauce: Dissolve sugar and water in a saucepan (use a pan that has high sides- when the cream is added, it will bubble up!).
• Use a clean pastry brush dipped in water to remove any sugar crystal that remained on the sides of the pan.
• Bring to a boil.
• Allow to cook (without stirring) until a golden colour is obtained.
• Slowly add the cream- be careful of the splashes of caramel and the hot cream.
• Allow to return to the boil for 30 seconds, remove from heat and stir in the butter.
• Refrigerate until needed or allow to cool slightly and serve with the Sticky Toffee Pudding.
• Preparation of vanilla bean ice-cream: Bring milk and cream to just below boiling point.
• Whisk together the egg yolks and sugar.
• Add some hot milk, mix and pour back onto the remaining hot milk.
• Stir continuously, cooking until mix is thick enough to coat the back of the spoon.
• Sieve immediately and cool down.
• Stir constantly, over a bowl of ice water.
• When cool, refrigerate until completely cold.
• Pour into ice-cream maker and follow the manufacturer's directions, freeze until set.
• Remove from ice-cream maker and store in the freezer until required.
• Can be stored for 1 week.

IRISH STICKY DATE PUDDING WITH IRISH WHISKEY TOFFEE SAUCE

Steps:

• Grease 10-cup (2.5 L) Bundt or tube pan; dust with flour. Set aside.
• In saucepan, bring water, dates and baking soda to boil; let cool.
• In large bowl, beat butter with sugar until light; beat in eggs, 1 at a time. Stir in vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour with baking powder; stir into butter mixture alternately with date mixture, making 2 additions of dry ingredients and 1 of date mixture. Scrape into prepared pan. Bake in centre of 350°F (180°C) oven for 45 minutes.
• Irish Whiskey Toffee Sauce: Meanwhile, in saucepan, melt butter over medium heat; stir in sugar until dissolved. Add cream and bring to simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened slightly, about 5 minutes. Stir in whiskey; keep warm.
• While still in pan and using skewer or toothpick, poke holes all over cake; pour 1/3 cup (75 mL) warm sauce evenly over top. Bake until cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean, about 15 minutes. Let cool in pan on rack for 10 minutes.
• Invert cake onto platter. Poke holes all over; pour 1/3 cup (75 mL) more sauce over cake. (Make-ahead: Let cool completely. Wrap in plastic wrap; store in airtight container at room temperature for up 2 days. Cover remaining sauce and refrigerate for up to 2 days. Reheat to serve.).
• To serve, cut into slices; drizzle with remaining warm sauce. Serves 12.
• Canadian Living Magazine: March 2007.

STICKY DATE PUDDING WITH CARAMEL SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180oC.
• Grease and line the base of 23cm deep round cake tin.
• Put the dates in a pan with 1 3/4 cups water, bring to the boil then remove from the heat.
• Add the bicarbonate of soda and ginger and leave to stand for 5 minutes.
• Coarsley mash with a potato masher.
• Cream together the butter, sugar and 1 egg.
• Beat in the remaining eggs one at a time.
• Once the eggs are well beaten, gently fold in the sifted flour and spices, add the date mixture and stir until well combined.
• Pour into the tin and bake for 55-60 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the middle.
• Cover with foil if over browning during cooking.
• Leave to stand for 5 minutes before turning out onto a serving plate.
• To make Caramel Sauce: Put all the ingredients in a pan and stir over low heat until the sugar has dissolved.
• Simmer uncovered, for about 3 minutes, or until thickened slightly.
• Brush some sauce over the top and sides of the pudding until well glazed.
• Serve immediately with the sauce and a dollop of cream.

DATE PUDDING WITH TOFFEE SAUCE (STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING)

Steps:

• For the pudding: Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a squate 9 inch baking pan. In a small saucepan mix together dates and water, bring to a boil. Add baking soda and stir until the dates begin to break down and mixture thickens slightly, 1 to 2 minutes, set aside.
• In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour, baking powder, allspice, and salt, set aside. In a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
• On low speed gradually add flour mixture alternating with date mixture and beat until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, about 40 minutes. Let pudding cool in pan on a cooling rack for 10 minutes. Meanwhile make toffee sauce.
• For the sauce: In a small saucepan mix together butter, sugar, and cream. Cook over medium heat stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves and mixture boils. Reduce heat to low and cook without stirring for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in alchohol.
• Cut pudding into squares and serve warm with sauce.