Sticky date pudding

Name: Sticky date pudding
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 4 unit eggs (at room temperature for best results); 1½ cups (360ml) of castor sugar; 1 cup (240ml) of light oil; 2 tsp of vanilla essence; 2 cups (480ml) of plain four; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 2 tsp salt; 2 tsp mixed spice; 1 cup (240ml) pitted dates; 2 cups (480ml) brown sugar; 1 cup (240ml) water; 1 unit Further tsp bicarbonate of soda; 500 ml cream

A 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, but warning, exceedingly diet unfriendly.

nut-free

Prep35 min

Cook45 min

Total80 min

Servings4

Difficultyadvanced

Ingredients

eggs (at room temperature for best results)
4 unit
(360ml) of castor sugar
1½ cups
(240ml) of light oil
1 cup
of vanilla essence
2 tsp
(480ml) of plain four
2 cups
bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp
salt
2 tsp
mixed spice
2 tsp
(240ml) pitted dates
1 cup
(480ml) brown sugar
2 cups
(240ml) water
1 cup
Further tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 unit
cream
500 ml

Method

Place 2 cup brown sugar and 1 cup of water in top of double saucepan,

2 minutes

Over simmering heat stir until caramel formed (i.e. all brown sugar dissolved)

8 minutes

Remove top saucepan, set aside to cool.

10 minutes

Chop dates roughly, place in saucepan, cover with only enough water to cover and add 1 tsp bicarb.

4 minutes

Bring to boil, and simmer for 1 minute (it will froth up from the bicarb, if so remove from heat once foam reaches the top of the saucepan)

5 minutes

Set aside to cool

10 minutes

Preheat oven to 180°C

3 minutes

Grease and line cake tin. (Cannot emphasise enough that the tin MUST be papered - I learnt the hard way.)

3 minutes

Sift dry ingredients (I like to do this twice)

3 minutes

Beat eggs lightly

1 minutes

Add castor sugar and beat as for making a sponge; really light and fluffy

5 minutes

Fold in oil and vanilla essence, but don’t over-mix this otherwise you’ll lose all the air in the egg mixture

2 minutes

Fold in the sifted flour, bicarb, and salt.

2 minutes

Fold in the cooled date mixture

2 minutes

Pour into prepared tin

2 minutes

Bake in oven @180°C for about 80-90 minutes, not too high in the oven otherwise the top will burn. Cooking time and temperature can be reduced slightly if a fan forced oven is used

85 minutes

Test cake with skewer, skewer should come out dry

1 minutes

Remove from oven leave pudding in the papered tin

1 minutes

Use a skewer to create lots of holes throughout the hot pudding

3 minutes

Pour approximately 1 cup of caramel mixture onto the hot pudding; this will soak into the holes of the pudding

2 minutes

Sticky date pudding

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