Icky Sticky Toffee Chocolate Pudding

Name: Icky Sticky Toffee Chocolate Pudding
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: 55 g/2 oz butter, softened; 350 ml/12 fl oz boiling water; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 170 g/6 oz dates, chopped; 2 tbsp brandy (optional); 2 tbsp double cream; 55 g/2 oz light muscovado sugar; 115 g/4 oz butter; 170 g/6 oz flour and 1 tsp baking powder sifted together; 55 g/1 oz dark chocolate, melted; 2 eggs, lightly beaten; 170 g/6 oz dark brown sugar

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

This is based on the fine old English pudding that is so popular with schoolboys - and grown-up schoolboys - but for chocolate lovers this is just that little bit more special. And so simple to make.

Ingredients

170 g/6 oz dates, chopped
350 ml/12

Dessert
Microwave
Vegetarian
Winter
Summer

Method

To make the pudding

Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4. Grease a 20 cm (8 in) ca