Tipsy Sticky Date Pudding Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12 cup muffin tin. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, and chocolate in a small bowl, and set aside.
• Bring the dates and water to a boil in a saucepan over high heat. Remove from the heat, and stir in the baking soda. Allow the mixture to stand for 5 minutes, then scrape into a blender, and carefully puree until smooth; set aside.
• Cream 1/4 cup of butter together with the superfine sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition. Fold in the flour mixture and the date puree until well blended. Spoon into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes. Meanwhile, stir together the cream, brown sugar, and 1 cup of butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat until the butter melts; set aside.
• When the puddings have baked for 25 minutes, remove them from the oven, and cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Remove the puddings from the muffin tin, and place them onto a baking sheet. Spoon 2 tablespoons of the sauce over each pudding, then return to the oven and bake for 5 minutes more.
• To serve, spoon some of the sauce onto the bottom of a dessert plate, and place a pudding on top. Lightly dust with confectioners' sugar, and top with a 1/4 cup scoop of ice cream. Repeat with the remaining date puddings.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter a 9-inch, high-sided baking pan.
• Place the dates in a saucepan, and cover with water. Bring to a boil, reduce to simmer and cook for three minutes. Add the baking soda, and set aside.
• In a bowl, cream one stick of butter, sugar and eggs, adding the eggs one at a time. Gently fold in the flour, the salt and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract. Slowly stir in the baking powder and 1/4 cup of the date cooking liquid, until the cake mixture resembles thick pancake batter. (Discard the rest.) Stir in the dates. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until cooked in the center.
• Meanwhile, make the sauce by combining a stick of butter, 1/4 cup of heavy cream, the brown sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Bring to a boil; reduce to simmer, and cook for three minutes.
• To serve, drizzle some of the sauce over the cake as it is cooling. Serve the rest of the sauce separately. Garnish with whipped cream if desired.

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.

Steps:

• In a saucepan combine 1 cup brown sugar, water, and bring to a boil, cook for 3 minutes.
• Remove from heat and add butter.
• In a bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, 1/2 cup sugar.
• Stir in milk until smooth.
• Add dates and walnuts.
• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Pour syrup into a 8 or 9-inch baking pan; add batter and bake for 45 minutes.
• Serve warm with whipped cream.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
• Mix the dates and baking soda in a bowl.
• Pour boiling water on top and leave until needed.
• Cream butter and sugar, then add eggs one at a time, beat well after each addition.
• Fold in the sifted flour, stir in the date mixture, and pour into a greased 18cm or 7" square or round cake tin.
• Bake for 30-40 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
• For the sauce: Combine sugar, cream, vanilla essence and butter in a saucepan, bring to the boil, stirring, and simmer for five minutes.
• Set aside until ready to serve.
• Cut pudding into squares and place each square in the centre of a warm dinner plate.
• Pour hot toffee sauce (reheat if neccesary) over each square and serve with ice cream.

Steps:

• In a saucepan, bring 1 cup brown sugar and water to a boil. Cook and stir for 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and add butter; set aside. In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and remaining brown sugar. Stir in milk until smooth. add dates and walnuts., Pour hot brown sugar syrup into an 8-in. square baking dish. Spoon batter over syrup. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of cake topping comes out clean. Serve warm with whipped cream.

Steps:

• Mix together 1 cup dates, 1 cup hot water and baking soda. Let stand several minutes.
• Add remaining ingredients (white sugar, butter, egg, flour, baking powder and pecans). Mix well.
• Pour into 9x9 inch greased pan.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Mix brown sugar, 2/3 cup water and 2/3 cup dates in saucepan.
• Cook for 3 minutes over medium heat,stirring constantly.
• Pour on top of date pudding immediately, or it can be spooned on after it is cut into pieces.
• Top with whipped cream.

Steps:

• Set oven to 180°C.
• With butter grease a 1.25-1.5 litre ovenproof dish, and arrange the pear halves, cut side up, in the dish.
• Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl, stir in the sugar.
• Beat the egg into the milk, then beat egg mixture into the butter.
• Pour batter into the dry ingredients and whisk well with beater until smooth then pour batter over the pears and set aside.
• To make the sticky topping: Put the brown sugar and syrup into a small saucepan with 175ml cold water.
• Warm through over a medium heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves then
• increase the heat and bring to the boil without stirring. Take off the heat and immediately pour the sauce over the unbaked pudding.
• Sit buttered ovenproof dish in a baking tray half filled with water and bake for 45 minutes until the sponge is golden and sticky on top.
• Leave for 5 minutes before serving with cream.

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 190°C-Gas5.
• Chop the dates in half and put them in a small saucepan and cover with the soya milk and water; simmer until the dates are soft.
• Take off the heat and stir in the bicarbonate of soda, which will froth as you add it to the date mixture. Leave to cool.
• Beat together the margarine and sugar until pale and creamy.
• Add the date mixture and stir.
• Mix the spices into the flour. Sieve the flour and fold into the sponge mixture.
• Spoon the sponge mixture into a 20cm x 20cm tin.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes or until cooked and the sponge bounces back when pressed.
• To make the sauce: melt the syrup, margarine, sugar and vanilla essence in a small saucepan; simmer for 5 minutes without stirring.
• Prick the pudding all over and pour half the hot toffee sauce over the pudding. Serve the rest of the sauce with the pudding.
• It freezes well, cut into individual servings and place in the freezer. Defrost in the microwave for 2 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 190ºC/fan 170ºC/gas5.
• Put dates in a saucepan with the whisky and 150ml water; Bring to the boil, then add the baking powder (it will froth a bit) and leave the dates to soak until cool.
• Beat the butter and sugar until smooth and creamy.
• Beat the eggs one at a time, stir in the flour, then the date mixture.
• Pour into a buttered brownie tin 22cm square; Bake for 30 minutes or until cooked through (test with a skewer).
• For the sauce, put the butter, muscovado sugar and double cream in a saucepan and bring it to the boil slowly, stirring, then simmer for 3 minutes.
• When the pudding is ready, remove from the oven and pour over enough sauce to make a sticky glaze.
• Return it to the oven for about 2 minutes.
• Serve it cut into squares with more sauce poured over.
• I served it with cream because I found it too sweet on its own although I don't have as much of a sweet tooth as many zaarites out there!