Little Icky Sticky Puddings with Caramel Sauce
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 170 g dates
- 300 ml water
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 170 g caster sugar
- 60 g butter, chopped and at room temperature
- 2 large eggs
- 170 g self raising flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
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Caramel Sauce
- 200 g brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup heavy cream
- 130 g butter, chopped
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
directions
- Before you do anything else, place the dates and the water into a saucepan over a moderate heat and bring the mixture to a good rolling boil.
- Remove saucepan from the heat and stir in the bicarbonate of soda.
- Now, allow the date mixture to cool while you prepare the other ingredients.
- Set the oven to 180C (350F).
- Grease a muffin tin (I use one that makes 12 muffins) very well.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl and using an electric mixer, beat together the butter and the sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Still beating, add eggs, one at a time, and beat until the beaters leave a'trail' in the mixture- it should be the consistency of whipped cream.
- Add vanilla and mix briefly to combine.
- Sift the flour into this mixture, then fold it in lightly but thoroughly with a wooden spoon.
- When the date mixture is cooled (no hotter than luke warm), tip it into the other ingredients and stir lightly but thoroughly to combine.
- A light hand in mixing at this stage will ensure light puddings.
- Don't worry that the mixture looks very liquid at this stage- that's how it's supposed to look.
- Spoon mixture into muffin cups, filling each cup almost, but not quite, to the top (they don't rise too much).
- Bake on the centre shelf of a preheated 180C (350F) oven for 15-20 minutes or until a skewer, inserted in the centre of a pudding, comes out clean.
- When cooked, remove tray from oven and allow puddings to cool for 5-10 minutes before removing to serve or to cool on wire racks.
- (If puddings stick, run a knife around the outside, and allow puddings to cool a little more before carefully easing out of the pan.) Serve warm with hot caramel sauce.
- TO MAKE THE CARAMEL SAUCE Combine all sauce ingredients in a small saucepan over a moderate heat and bring to the boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Serve over warm puddings.
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