Sticky Date Pudding

• servings: 6 servings
• active time: 20 minutes
• total time: 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients

🌰 1 1/4 cups dates

💧 1 1/4 cups boiling water

🍚 1 tsp bicarbonate soda

🧈 2 tbsp butter

🟤 1/2 cup brown sugar

🥚 2 eggs

🌾 1 cup self-raising flour

2 tsp mixed spice or garam masala (optional)

🟤 1 cup brown sugar

🍶 300ml cream

🧈 100g butter

🧂 Big pinch of salt

Directions

In your blender, mix dates, boiling water, and bicarbonate soda. Stir and let it chill for 5 mins.

Drop in butter and sugar, and blend!

Toss in flour, sugar, eggs (and a hint of your fave spice if you’re feeling fancy 😉).

Blend till you get that perfect cake batter consistency.

Pour your masterpiece into a lined cake tin and bake at 180C for a golden hour.

**For the Butterscotch Sauce**:

In a microwave-safe bowl, toss in sugar, cream, and butter.

Microwave magic: 4 minutes total, but remember to give it a stir every minute.

Finally, sprinkle in that salt, mix, and voilà!

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1
• Calories: 613
• Total Fat: 28.4 g
• Saturated Fat: 17.2 g
• Trans Fat: 0.3 g
• Cholesterol: 136.7 mg
• Sodium: 895.5 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 88.5 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2.7 g
• Total Sugars: 69.5 g
• Protein: 5.7 g