# Best Sticky Toffee Pudding

This sticky toffee pudding is a soft, moist date cake topped with a rich buttery toffee sauce, served warm with vanilla ice cream for the ultimate cozy dessert.

- Total time: 35 min
- Cuisine: British
- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- salted butter
- dark brown sugar
- heavy cream
- Medjool dates
- baking soda
- boiling water
- wet ingredients
- date puree
- dry ingredients
- vanilla bean ice cream
- caramel

## Instructions

1. Melt salted butter, then add dark brown sugar and heavy cream, mixing over medium heat until combined to create the caramel.
2. Seed Medjool dates in a big bowl, add baking soda and boiling water to soften them.
3. Turn the softened dates into a puree in a food processor.
4. Mix together all the wet ingredients in a stand mixer.
5. Add the date puree to the wet ingredients and mix.
6. Fold in the dry ingredients.
7. Transfer the batter to a buttered baking dish.
8. Bake at 350° Fahrenheit for 30 minutes.
9. Once baked, poke some holes in the cake with a fork.
10. Pour the prepared caramel over the top of the cake.
11. Bake for five more minutes to let the caramel infuse into the cake layer.
12. Serve hot with some cold vanilla bean ice cream and more caramel.

## Equipment

- food processor
- stand mixer
- baking dish
- fork

## Tips

- Serve hot with cold vanilla bean ice cream and extra caramel.
- Poke holes in the cake to infuse caramel.
- Buttered baking dish prevents sticking.

## Source

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- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/b870cf20-8a49-49d7-a58f-af9877fed091
- Extracted: 2026-02-14

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