Cookbook:Sticky Date Pudding
Sticky Date Pudding | |
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Category | Dessert recipes |
Servings | 12 |
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A sticky date pudding is a favorite Australian pudding, especially in Southern climates in the winter months. Your family and friends will love you forever if you make them the following recipe.
Ingredients
editSauce
edit- 2 cups (480 ml) brown sugar
- 1 cup (240 ml) water
Cake
edit- 1 cup (240 ml) pitted dates
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 cups (480 ml) plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 4 eggs, at room temperature
- 1½ cups (360 ml) castor sugar
- 1 cup (240 ml) vegetable oil
- 2 tsp of vanilla essence
Serving
edit- 500 ml cream
Equipment
edit- Double boiler
- Electric mixer (a free standing one is better, as you need to beat the eggs for some time for best results)
- Sieve or flour sifter
- Large cake tin, lined with parchment paper and well-greased
Procedure
editSauce
edit- Place brown sugar and water in top of double boiler.
- Over simmering heat, stir until all brown sugar is dissolved.
- Remove from the heat, and set aside to cool.
Cake
edit- Chop dates roughly, place in saucepan, and add sodium bicarbonate along with just enough water to cover everything.
- Bring to boil, and simmer for 1 minute. It should froth up from the bicarb; when it does, remove from heat once foam reaches the top of the saucepan.
- Set aside to cool.
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt, and mixed spice together twice.
- Beat eggs lightly. Add castor sugar and whip as for making a sponge; it should be really light and fluffy.
- Fold in oil and vanilla essence, but don’t over-mix this as you’ll lose all the air in the egg mixture.
- Fold in the sifted flour, sodium bicarbonate, and salt. Then, fold in the cooled date mixture.
- Pour into prepared tin. Bake in oven at 180°C for about 80–90 minutes, not too high in the oven or the top will burn. Cooking time and temperature can be reduced slightly if a fan-forced oven is used
- Test cake with skewer, which should come out dry. Remove from oven, and leave pudding in the tin
Serving
edit- Use a skewer to create lots of holes throughout the hot pudding
- Pour approximately 1 cup of caramel mixture onto the hot pudding; this will soak into the holes of the pudding
- Slice into desired portions, and serve immediately with cream or ice cream.