Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe
Sticky toffee pudding, with more explanatory words sticky pudding with toffee sauce is one of the favorite desserts of British cuisine. The word pudding can be confusing. Pudding for us Turks just includes custard-like milk desserts. In the UK the situation is somewhat different. The British can call many sweet or salty foods pudding.
There are many different types of pudding, such as a sausage called blood pudding, rice pudding, a stale bread dessert called bread and butter pudding, a pop over variety called yorkshire pudding, and this recipe sticky toffee pudding. All of them are different from each other and even in different categories. Although it has changed now, what they have in common in the past was that they were boiled or steamed.
In fact, I saw a passage in a book on Ottoman food written by a British guy that he calls even borek a pudding. So I'm not too sure about this boiling and steam rule. I feel like they call everything that doesn't fall into a very specific category pudding, but I can't prove it.
As for the sticky tofee pudding... It's a delicious cake topped with the toffee sauce I shared before. You might look at the color and think it's cocoa powder, but it's not. It gets its color from the brown sugar, molasses (originally treacle, a product produced during sugar making) and dates it contains.
Baking soda is used as a leavening agent, not baking powder, so it has that special flavor you know from the apple cinnamon wet cake recipe. The baking soda is activated by the acidity of the dates. You will remember this method from the medovik cake recipe. In Medovik, baking soda is activated with heated honey.
Sticky pudding can be baked in portions in ramequines, or it can be baked in a large baking dish and sliced or served by spooning it onto serving plates. It's often topped with whipped cream or ice cream while serving. I made a small change and used kaymak that I made at home should be consumed as soon as possible. I was satisfied with the taste.
Enjoy the recipe...
Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe with Video
Ingredients
- 2 eggs,
- 125 g of soft butter,
- 1/2 cup of brown sugar,
- 200 g deseeded dates,
- 1 cup of water,
- 1 tablespoon of treacle or molasses of any kind,
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda,
- 1 cup+1 tablespoon of flour,
- Toffee sauce.
Preparation
- Place the dates and water in a saucepan and cook until the dates are soft,
- Turn off the heat and add the baking soda and mix (it will foam and become active),
- Puree the mixture in a blender,
- Beat butter and sugar in a separate bowl,
- Add the eggs and beat,
- Add the flour lgradually and whisk,
- Add molasses and date puree and whisk,
- Divide the mixture into greased 6 ramequins,
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees until the toothpick test comes out clean,
- Drizzle toffee sauce on them as soon as they come out of the oven.
- Serve warm or cold with ice cream, whipped cream or kaymak.
Enjoy...