Sticky Date Pudding



We love to make this especially on a cold winters night, a favourite of Master M, he even likes to makes this.

Ingredients

300 g Pitted dates

2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

600 ml boiling water

120 g butter

dash of vanilla

2 Eggs

460 g Plain flour

3 tsp Baking powder

Caramel Sauce

800 g Brown sugar

400 g butter

450 ml cream

1 Mix chopped dates bicarb soada pore boiling water over dates and let sit for 10mins.

2 combine the sugar, butter and vanilla and beat till creamy.

3 Add eggs, beat.

4 Add the dates and the flour and fold through

5 Pore into a lined cake tin and bake at 180 degrees 40-45mins.

In a saucepan boil brown sugar, butter and cream for 5mins

We like to make a praline to go with our pudding, equal amounts of water to sugar, boil till golden. Pour on to a lined tray.
Enjoy