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Sticky Date Pudding (Classic)

Name: Sticky Date Pudding (Classic)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 200g pitted dates, roughly chopped; 1 cup boiling water; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 75g butter, softened; 3/4 cup brown sugar; 2 eggs; 1 1/2 cups self-raising flour; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 100g butter for sauce; 1 cup brown sugar for sauce; 1 cup cream for sauce; 1 tsp vanilla for sauce

Australia's most popular restaurant dessert — warm date sponge with butterscotch sauce. Soaking the dates in boiling water with a pinch of bicarb before they go into the batter softens them enough to break down into the sponge, giving it that moist, sticky crumb.

Total time

45 min

Prep

15 min

Cook

30 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Australian

vegetarian

Ingredients

200gpitted dates, roughly chopped

1 cupboiling water

1 tspbicarbonate of soda

75gbutter, softened

3/4 cupbrown sugar

2eggs

1 1/2 cupsself-raising flour

1 tspvanilla extract

100gbutter for sauce

1 cupbrown sugar for sauce

1 cupcream for sauce

1 tspvanilla for sauce

Instructions

Soak dates in boiling water with bicarb 10 minutes. Cool.

Beat butter and sugar. Add eggs.

Fold in flour and vanilla. Stir in date mixture.

Pour into a greased 23cm square tin.

Bake at 180°C for 30 minutes. Make sauce: boil butter, sugar and cream 3 minutes. Pour over pudding.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

485

Protein

7.7g

Fat

18.1g

Carbs

73.7g

Fiber

1.4g

Sodium

668mg