The Most Underrated Dessert: Sticky Toffee Pudding

Summary by Krater

Joshua Weissman demonstrates how to make sticky toffee pudding from scratch, featuring a date cake base, a rich toffee sauce made with golden syrup, and vanilla ice cream.

From the video

Answers: How do you make sticky toffee pudding?

• Sticky toffee pudding recipe
• Date paste preparation
• Toffee sauce making
• Baking date cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup dates
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 egg yolks
• 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1/3 cup Lyle's golden syrup
• 2 tablespoons Lyle's treacle syrup
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 8 generous pinches kosher salt

What it concludes

• Lyle's syrup is recommended for the toffee sauce as the preferred authentic option.
• Being generous with salt in the toffee sauce creates the ideal sweet and salty flavor balance.
• Poking holes in the freshly baked cake allows the toffee sauce to soak deeply into the center.