Date pudding with toffee sauce

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8 servings Cooking: 40 mins
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By Food24 November 03 2009
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Ingredients (14)

430.00 ml dates — soft, chopped
500.00 ml water
7.00 ml Bicarbonate of soda
500.00 ml flour — cake
2.00 ml Baking powder
2.00 ml ginger — ground
2.00 ml salt
90.00 g butter — soft
250.00 ml sugar
3.00 eggs — extra-large
TOFFEE SAUCE
210.00 ml butter
330.00 ml brown sugar — soft
250.00 ml cream — thick
2.00 ml vanilla — essence
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Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 ºC and spray a 20 cm ovenproof dish with non-stick spray or butter lightly. Dust with cake flour, shaking out any excess.
Place the dates and water in a medium sized saucepan and simmer uncovered for 5 minutes. Remove from the stove and stir in the bicarbonate of soda. (The mixture will foam.) Leave for 20 minutes.
Sift the cake flour, baking powder, ginger and salt together. Beat the butter and sugar in a large dish until light and fluffy, adding the eggs one by one and beating well after each addition. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture in three even parts, mixing until just blended after each addition. Stir in the date mixture with a wooden spoon until just blended and turn the batter into the prepared oven dish. Place the dish in a large oven pan and fill halfway with hot water. Bake in the centre of the oven for 35-40 minutes or until a testing skewer comes out dean. Remove the pudding from the oven pan and cool slightly.
Meanwhile prepare the sauce Melt the butter in a medium-sized heavy-bottomed saucepan and stir in the sugar. Stir until melted and bring the mixture to the boil while stirring occasionally. Simmer slowly for 1 minute. Remove from the heat, stir in the cream and vanilla essence and continue simmering until the sauce thickens slightly, about 5 minutes. Cool slightly and serve with the date pudding and a scoop of ice cream.
Serves 6-8.



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