Sticky toffee pudding

sticky toffee pudding

a beginner’s guide

  • Take it out of the muffin cup, turn it upside down in a bowl, microwave it with the sauce cup for 10-20 seconds (the sauce cup is microwave safe!) and pour the sauce over the top. Let it soak for a minute and then enjoy.

  • YES. Sticky toffee pudding is usually served with vanilla ice cream or straight up cream. But eat it straight if you want. That’s what I do.

  • I know, right? Amazingly, it’s mostly dates. Dates is the first thing on the ingredient list.

    The sauce is made with muscovado sugar which is a very dark brown sugar with a high molasses content. It’s an intensely rich flavor that you don’t come across every day.

  • No.

  • This recipe was passed down to me by my ancient Scottish father. It’s the best sticky toffee pudding that I’ve ever had (and I’ve eaten A LOT of sticky toffee pudding).

If you’re not British and you don’t watch the Great British Bake Off, you might have never heard of sticky toffee pudding. If you HAVE heard of it or if you’ve been lucky enough to actually eat it, you’re probably delighted to have the opportunity to get some delivered to you on Sunday morning. Either way, here’s what you need to know about STP and how to get the most out of yours.

According to a website I just looked at, “sticky toffee pudding is a classic British dessert consisting of a moist brown sugar sponge cake made with chopped dates and served drizzled with toffee sauce”. That really sums it up. It's called “pudding” because in the UK “pudding” is synonymous with “dessert”. At least where I'm from in Scotland it is. American pudding would probably be called custard or maybe “mousse”.

Bakeday’s STP is made according to a recipe that has been handed down through generations of my family (precisely two generations: from my dad to me) and it’s my favorite ever version of a dessert that I’ve eaten at a hundred different pubs and restaurants.

When your bakeday box shows up on Sunday morning you might open it up and think, “what the hell is this, like a bran muffin or something?” Don’t worry. It might not look like much but you’re about to bring it to life. Remove it from its cute yellow muffin wrapper, turn it upside down in a bowl, and microwave it along with the toffee sauce for 20 seconds. Once both are warm, pour your toffee sauce over your pudding, give it a minute to soak in, and then enjoy! Let me know what you think.

Ingredients: Dates, butter, sugar, flour, eggs, cream, whisky.

Contains: Wheat, eggs, milk.