Sticky Carrot Puddings Recipes

STICKY TOFFEE (& CARROT) PUDDING WITH RICH TOFFEE SAUCE

Steps:

• For the Pudding.
• Preheat oven at 180 oC.
• Place the dates and figs in a bowl with the bicarbonate of soda and cover with boiling water, set aside till needed.
• Cream the butter and sugar until well blended add the beaten eggs gradually to resemble a smooth mixture.
• Fold in the flour.
• Add date, fig and water mixture and blend throughly.
• Add grated carrot and nuts.
• Pour into a greased cake tin or latex mould.
• Bake for 30 to 40 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
• Toffee Sauce.
• Place butter, cream, syrup, treacle and vanilla extact in a saucepan.
• Melt over medium heat until it comes to the boil, stirring frequently.
• Add nuts and fruit, if required.
• Simmer for 5 minutes.
• Serve Pudding with lashings of sauce and vanilla ice cream.
• Heat sauce prior to serving if it has cooled down.

STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING WITH TOFFEE SAUCE

Steps:

• Cake: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter and flour a 2 1/2-quart baking dish. Place dates in a bowl, pour coffee over dates, and let soak 15 minutes. Stir in baking soda.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat together butter and sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to medium and beat in eggs, one at a time, until thoroughly incorporated.
• Reduce speed to low, and add half the flour mixture, beating until combined. Add date mixture and remaining flour mixture, and beat until just combined. (Do not overmix.) Transfer batter to dish, and bake until cake is puffed and springs back in center when gently pressed with a finger, about 25 minutes.
• Sauce: Meanwhile, combine butter, sugar, and cream in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium (so sauce does not boil over) and boil, stirring frequently, until sauce thickens and darkens slightly, about 4 minutes.
• Remove cake from oven and pierce holes at 1-inch intervals to bottom of cake with a wooden skewer. Pour half of hot sauce over cake and let soak 20 minutes. Serve warm with remaining sauce. Cake soaked in sauce and remaining toffee sauce can be stored at room temperature up to 1 day. Before serving, warm cake in a 300 degrees oven 10 minutes, and sauce in a small saucepan over medium heat.