Delia Sticky Toffee Pudding Food

STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

Steps:

• For the sauce: In a heavy saucepan over medium heat, combine 1 1/4 cups of the heavy cream, the sugar, corn syrup and butter. Cook, stirring often, until a dark amber color, about 40 minutes. Carefully add the remaining 1 1/4 cups heavy cream. IT WILL BUBBLE UP AND IT IS HOT!
• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease seven 1/2 cup ramekins and set aside.
• Combine the dates and 3/4 cup water in a small saucepan and cook until the dates are softened, about 15 minutes. Puree in a blender and cool. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a small bowl and set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the brown sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla, egg, zest and date puree. Stir in the dry ingredients. Divide into the prepared ramekins and bake about 20 minutes. Cool slightly and remove the cakes from the ramekins. Slice the cakes in half horizontally. Rinse out the ramekins. Pour a little toffee sauce in the bottom of the ramekins and top with the bottom layer of the cake. Add more toffee sauce, place the top cake layer on top and cover with more sauce. Heat slightly before serving invert onto plate and yes ...cover with more sauce. Serve with whipped cream.

STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, add dates, boiling water and baking soda which helps to soften the fruit. Bring the mixture to a boil then cover, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 5 minutes. Halfway through cooking, stir and clean up the sides of the saucepan; cover and cook for the remaining time. Remove from the heat, add vanilla extract, cover and let it sit while prepping.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, ginger, cloves and salt; whisk well. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and process until blended. Add half flour mixture and mix until combined. Add the remaining half flour mixture and process until just blended. Add date mixture and process until well mixed, cleaning the sides of the bowl.
• Pour batter in a buttered and floured muffin pan to ¾'s full. Gently tap the pan on the counter to remove any trapped air bubbles. Transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a small saucepan over medium heat, add all the toffee sauce ingredients. Combine well and cook for 15 minutes, stirring often.
• When pudding is done, place the muffin pan on a wire rack and using a toothpick, poke holes in each muffin. Pour about 1 tablespoon of toffee sauce on top of each. If desired, when the sauce is absorbed, glaze with cream cheese icing.
• When time to serve, pour a generous amount of warm toffee sauce over each pudding. If not using cream cheese icing, add a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Makes 12 servings.

ULTIMATE STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

Steps:

• Stone and chop 225g medjool dates quite small, put them in a bowl, then pour over 175ml boiling water.
• Leave for about 30 mins until cool and well-soaked, then mash a bit with a fork. Stir in 1 tsp vanilla extract.
• Butter and flour seven mini pudding tins (each about 200ml/7fl oz) and sit them on a baking sheet. Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
• While the dates are soaking, make the puddings. Mix 175g self-raising flour and 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda together and beat the 2 eggs in a separate bowl.
• Beat 85g softened butter and 140g demerara sugar together in a large bowl for a few mins until slightly creamy (the mixture will be grainy from the sugar). Add the eggs a little at a time, beating well between additions.
• Beat in 2 tbsp black treacle then, using a large metal spoon, gently fold in one-third of the flour and bicarbonate of soda mix, then half of the 100ml milk, being careful not to overbeat. Repeat until all the flour mix and all the milk is used.
• Stir the soaked dates into the pudding batter. The mix may look a little curdled at this point and will be like a soft, thick batter.
• Spoon it evenly between the tins and bake for 20-25 mins, until risen and firm.
• Meanwhile, put the 175g light muscovado sugar and 50g butter pieces for the sauce in a medium saucepan with half the 225ml double cream.
• Bring to the boil over a medium heat, stirring all the time, until the sugar has completely dissolved.
• Stir in 1 tbsp black treacle, turn up the heat slightly and let the mixture bubble away for 2-3 mins until it is a rich toffee colour, stirring occasionally to make sure it doesn't burn. Take the pan off the heat and beat in the rest of the double cream.
• Remove the puddings from the oven. Leave in the tins for a few mins, then loosen them well from the sides of the tins with a small palette knife before turning them out.
• You can serve them now with the sauce drizzled over, but they'll be even stickier if left for a day or two coated in the sauce. To do this, pour about half the sauce into one or two ovenproof serving dishes.
• Sit the upturned puddings on the sauce, then pour the rest of the sauce over them. Cover with a loose tent of foil so that the sauce doesn't smudge (no need to chill).
• When ready to serve, heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Warm the puddings through, still covered, for 15-20 mins or until the sauce is bubbling. Serve them on their own, or with cream or custard.

ABSOLUTELY SINFUL! STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING WITH PECAN TOFFEE SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/360°F Lightly butter 8 x 3" ramekin dishes. I like to spray them to coat them evenly.
• Soak the dates in the boiling water for about half an hour to soften them. Add the bicarbonate of soda, vanilla essence and coffee mixture, mix well and allow to soak for 30 minutes more.
• In a separate bowl, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add the beaten eggs, a little at a time, and beat well after each addition. Fold in the sifted flour, again a little at a time, gently mixing through after each addition.
• Then add the date mixture. You should have a fairly sloppy mixture, it looks all wrong - but it is ALL right, I promise you! Divide the mixture equally between the ramekins, place them on a baking tray and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until well risen.
• Cool for 5 minutes, then loosen them around the sides with a butter knife and turn out. The puddings can be cooled and frozen at this stage. After freezing, defrost, pour the hot sauce over and re-heat to serve as instructed below.
• To serve:- Place the puddings in a shallow ovenproof dish. Heat the grill. Make the sauce by melting the butter, cream, pecans and sugar together in a pan, and stir well.When just boiling, pour HALF of the sauce over the puddings; and then continue to heat the sauce on a rolling boil until it has thickened.
• Place the puddings 5" below the grill and cook for about 8 minutes, making sure that the nuts and sauce does not burn too badly; you should have toasted nuts in places, with a sticky toffee glaze which is almost crunchy.
• Serve with the extra toffee sauce in a heatproof jug, chilled cream, custard, ice-cream, or just NAKED!

STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

Steps:

• For Pudding:.
• Preheat oven to 350°F Butter 9-inch-diameter springform or bundt pan.
• Place chopped dates and baking soda in small bowl. Pour 1 cup boiling water over dates, stir and let cool, about 1 hour.
• Using electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in large bowl to blend. Add 2 eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add half of flour and beat to blend. Add remaining 2 eggs, 1 at a time, beating to blend after each addition. Add remaining flour and beat until blended. Add instant coffee granules to date mixture, stirring to dissolve coffee granules. Add date mixture to batter and beat to blend. Pour batter into prepared pan. Place on rimmed baking sheet and bake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour.
• Cool pudding until just warm. Unmold; poke holes in pudding with a skewer, pour ½ of sauce over cake. Cut into wedges and serve with whipped cream and more Caramel Sauce.
• For Sauce:.
• Bring cream, brown sugar, butter and molasses to boil in heavy medium saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring frequently. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer sauce until reduced to 1 3/4 cups, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes. Stir in vanilla after sauce is taken off of heat. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Before using, rewarm over medium-low heat, stirring frequently.).

ELIZA'S STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

Steps:

• To make the pudding, put the dates and bicarbonate of soda in a heatproof bowl. Cover with boiling water and leave to soak.
• Preheat the oven to 180c/350f/gas mark 4.
• Grease a cake tin (round or square) 20cm diameter, with butter.
• Put the remaining butter in a separate bowl, add sugar, and mix well.
• Beat the eggs then fold in the flour.
• Drain the soaked dates, add to the bowl and mix.
• Spoon the mixture evenly into the prepared cake tin.
• Transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 25-30mins(longer for a non fan oven). The pudding is cooked when a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
• About 5-10mins before the end of the cooking time, make the sauce.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan over a medium heat.
• Stir in the cream and the sugar and bring to the boil, stirring constantly.
• Lower the heat and simmer for 5mins.
• Turn out the pudding on to a serving plate, decorate with the orange rind, serve the sauce in a jug as you would do cream and serve per person.