Page 33 - Real Rochdale Issue 20 Winter 2023

STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

by Natasha Brown - owner of Brown’s Cakes

My husband, Tony, doesn’t like Christmas pudding (I know, fool!), so, every year we have
sticky toffee pudding as well as the traditional Christmas pud on our Christmas table.

This isn’t a heavy sticky toffee pudding recipe so you should be able to squeeze a bit in
after your Christmas dinner!

Ingredients

For the sponge: For the topping:
• 125g dates • 75g dark brown sugar
• ¾ tsp bicarbonate of soda • 1 tbsp treacle
• 90ml boiling water • 30ml double cream
• 65g butter + extra for greasing tin
• 110g dark brown sugar Or double everything if you want lots
• 2 eggs of sticky sauce to pour over!
• 125g self-raising flour
• 65g treacle
• 1tsp vanilla extract
• 1tsp mixed spice

For the pudding start by preheating repeat this for the second egg.
the oven to 160°C.
Add the flour, mixed spice and treacle
Grease an 8” square tin (use a tin with and gently beat together.
low sides, about 2” deep if you want
to serve the pudding in the tin. You Pour into the greased tin and bake for
can use a loaf tin but this will make a 35/40 mins until it looks baked. Don’t
deeper pudding and will take longer to be tempted to open the oven door
bake). before it looks baked as this might
cause it to sink.
Soak the dates for about 10 minutes in You can pour the topping over the pudding and serve it in the tin or let the pudding cool a
the boiling water along with the Check the cake is cooked by inserting little before tipping it onto a serving dish and pouring the topping over. If you make double
bicarbonate of soda and then blend a wooden skewer and checking that it the topping, you could put half in a small jug and serve with the pudding for those who like
together to form a paste. comes out clean. If it doesn’t, keep the extra sauce.
cake in the oven and check again after
Beat the sugar and butter together five minutes. If you are buying dates and treacle etc. you will have more than enough to have a trial run
really well until the mixture turns before Christmas to alleviate the stress on Christmas day.
golden. To make the topping, put all the
ingredients in a heavy saucepan and You can also plan to make the pudding the day before and warm it in the oven or microwave
Add a tablespoon of flour to the gently heat. Let it boil for a minute or on the day. Try it beforehand to practise, to see how it warms and to enjoy!
mixture and gently beat in an egg, two.

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