Sticky Toffee Sponge

Name: Sticky Toffee Sponge
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 175 g (6 oz) self-raising flour; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 2 eggs; 175 g (6 oz) dates, chopped; 300 ml (¼ pt) water; 50 g (2 oz) unsalted butter; 300 ml (½ pt) (double) cream; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 175 g (6 oz) caster sugar; 50 g (2 oz) demerara sugar; 1 dessertspn black treacle

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Great British Chefs

By Kit Chapman

Published 1989

About

Ingredients

50 g (2 oz) unsalted butter
175 g (6

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4.

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add the eggs and beat well. Boil the dates in the water until soft and add the bicarbonate of soda. Mix the flour, dates and vanilla essence into the butter mixture and pour into a gr