Sticky Toffee Pudding

Name: Sticky Toffee Pudding
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 55 g/2 oz unsalted butter, softened, plus extra to butter the dish; 2 eggs; 175 g/6 oz caster sugar; 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 1 dessertspoon black treacle; 55 g/2 oz demerara sugar; 300 ml/½ pint double cream; vanilla ice cream, to serve; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 175 g/6 oz self-raising flour; 175 g/6 oz dates, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Let's Eat

By Tom Parker Bowles

Published 2013

About

Not so long ago, I imagined this pudding as an old English classic (well, at least dating back to the time when sugar made it to our shores), devoured by Tristram Shandy, Daniel Deronda and David Copperfield in his dotage. Yet this is a relatively recent invention. Despite claims to the contrary, STP was not first conjured up by The Village Shop in Cartmel – although this is one of the best you can buy. But, according to

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Dessert
Vegetarian

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