Sticky Toffee Date Cake Recipes

STICKY TOFFEE WHOLE-WHEAT DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Make the cake: Heat oven to 325 degrees and butter an 8-inch square or 9-inch round cake pan.
• In a small pot, combine dates, lemon juice and 3/4 cup/180 milliliters water. Bring mixture to a boil, then simmer gently until dates soften and start to fall apart, about 6 minutes. Add currants to the pot and set aside to cool completely.
• While date mixture cools, stir together whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and salt.
• Using an electric mixer, beat butter and brown sugar together on medium speed until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Mix in vanilla and cooled date mixture, followed by flour mixture.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared pan, spreading evenly and smoothing the surface. Bake for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean with just a few crumbs clinging to it.
• Meanwhile, make the sticky toffee: In a small pot (you can use the same one you used for the dates), combine agave, brown sugar and salt. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, whisking to dissolve sugar. Once sugar dissolves and bubbles, remove from heat and swirl in butter.
• When the cake comes out of the oven, spoon half the sticky toffee over it and let cool in the pan on a wire rack. (It will soak into the cake.)
• When the cake has cooled completely and the remaining sticky toffee has thickened, spread it over the cake with an offset spatula. Sprinkle with fleur de sel and serve. Store, loosely wrapped, at room temperature for up to 2 days.

STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING CAKE

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a bundt pan with a nonstick cooking spray.
• Put the dates in a medium bowl, pour the boiling water over them and let sit 10 minutes.
• In a large bowl, beat the granulated sugar, butter and eggs. Add the vanilla. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and mix. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and gently mix. Add the dates with their liquid and mix. Use a light hand; don't overbeat or the cake will be tough.
• Add the batter to the prepared pan and bake for 45 minutes to an hour, making sure to check after 45 minutes to make sure the cake does not get too dry. Let cool for 15 minutes, then unmold the cake and cool on a rack until slightly warm.
• For the pudding: In a medium pot, combine the brown sugar, butter, cream, vanilla and salt. Bring to a boil and then simmer, stirring constantly, until thickened, about 10 minutes.
• Place the cake on a platter, pour the pudding over and garnish with the crushed toffee bar.

STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch square baking dish.
• In a small bowl combine the dates and baking soda. Pour enough boiling water over the dates to just cover them.
• Cream 1/3 cup of butter with the white sugar until light. Beat in the eggs and mix well to combine.
• Add the flour and date mixture (including water) to the egg mixture and fold to combine. Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a tester comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes. Let cool slightly and prepare the sauce.
• To Make Caramel Sauce: In a small saucepan combine the brown sugar, 1/3 cup butter, and evaporated milk. Cook over medium heat and bring to boil. Turn heat down and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla. Pour the sauce over individual servings of warm cake.

STICKY TOFFEE DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour two 9-inch-round cake pans or 20 muffin tins.
• Place the dates in large saucepan with 3 1/2 cups cold water. Bring to boil, stirring a little to break up the dates. Then leave to simmer for 1 minute before removing from the heat. Stir in the baking soda (which will cause the mixture to bubble up).
• Cream the butter and sugar together in a food mixer until pale and creamy. Add the eggs, one at a time, occasionally scraping down mixing bowl. Add the vanilla extract and then the flour and salt and mix briefly to give a lumpy dough.
• Next, add the warm date mixture in two batches. Scrape down the sides of bowl in between mixing. The dough will now be quite watery but don't worry! Finally add the baking powder (this will bubble up also).
• Pour the batter evenly into the two pans or muffin tins. Bake for about 30 to 40 minutes for cake pans and about 20 minutes for muffin tins. Test if they are cooked with a small knife or toothpick, it should come out clean when cakes are done.
• Meanwhile, to make the sauce, combine the butter, brown sugar, heavy cream and vanilla extract in a medium saucepan. Bring to boil and then reduce to simmer gently for a minute or two until thickened and well blended.
• When the cakes are done, poke little holes all over with toothpick, this will enable the sauce to be absorbed more easily. Pour the caramel sauce over cakes while both are still warm and leave to soak for about 10 minutes. Turn the cakes out upside-down onto serving plates (the bottom is the most sticky bit!).
• Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray an 8x8 baking pan with baking spray.
• Before starting add bring dates and water to a small saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Turn off heat and leave to soak for 10 minutes.
• Add dates and water to a blender and puree (CAREFULLY, water will still be hot).
• Pour into large mixing bowl and add in flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, whisking well until just combined.
• To your stand mixer add butter and brown sugar on medium speed, beating until light and fluffy, about 1 minute.
• Add in the egg, vanilla extract and orange zest until well combined.
• On the lowest speed setting add in the date mixture until just combined.
• Pour into baking pan and bake for 25-30 minutes.
• To a large saucepan add the heavy cream, butter, brown sugar, molasses, corn syrup and vanilla extract.
• On medium heat, whisk well until combined.
• Bring to a boil and cook for 3 minutes.
• Remove from heat.
• Serve slices covered with toffee sauce.

STICKY TOFFEE LOAF CAKE

Steps:

• In a large pot add the butter and brown sugar. Whisk constantly over medium heat for 3-4 minutes. Add one tablespoon of cream at a time.
• Whisk each tablespoon of cream until its fully combined then add the next. Let the mixture come to a roaring boil for 2-3 minutes. Let the sauce sit in the pot and thicken while you prepare the rest of the cake.
• In a large heatproof bowl add the dates and hot water, let sit for 10 minutes. Prepare a 9X5 inch loaf pan and grease the whole pan, preheat the oven to 350F/180C. While the dates soak prepare the rest of the ingredients.
• In a large bowl or bowl of your stand mixer add the softened butter and sugar, mix on medium speed for 2-4 minutes, until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, making sure to combine after each addition.
• In a small bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
• In a food processor add the dates and liquid add baking soda and pulse 8-10 times until the mixture has broken down mostly- there will still be chunks that's what you want. Mix the vanilla into the date mixuture.
• Gently fold half of the dry ingredients into the wet mixture. Add half of the date mixture then the rest of the dry ingredients and the date mixture again. Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan then spoon 5-6 teaspoons of the sticky toffee sauce on top and use a butter knife to swirl the sauce into the batter. Top with the remaining batter and add another 5-6 teaspoons of toffee sauce and swirl again.
• Bake for 45-55 minutes, until the cake is done. Lightly press the cake in the center if it bounces back the cake is done, or press a toothpick into the center and look for no wet batter, moist crumbs are okay. Let the cake cool on a wire rack.
• After at least 30 minutes invert the cake on to a wire rack to cool completley. Reheat the remaining sticky toffee sauce just for a second to loosen it, and use the remaining sauce to drizzle on top of the cake. Store leftovers in the fridge for up to 5 days.