ManchesterChef: Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe by chef James Martin

There’s pudding, and there’s pudding. And if you’re going to indulge, you might as well make it the most grin-inducingly sweet one you can get your paws on.

Sticky toffee pudding has its origins in the north west of England, and we can’t get enough of it. And when James Martin does a version, you just know it’s going to be spectacular.

You can whip up this versionof the recipe in the comfort of your own home, for the ultimate treat. Comforting, warming and jaw-droppingly treacly, it’s like Bonfire Night on a plate. Just add ice cream.

I made @jamesmartinchef’s sticky toffee pudding and it is outrageously good pic.twitter.com/Bji2Lf07f1

— Louise Rhind-Tutt (@lrtpublicity) April 12, 2020

Ingredients

• 55g butter, plus extra for greasing
• 200g self-raising flour, plus extra for flouring
• 170g Demerara sugar
• 2 tbsp black treacle
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• 2 free-range eggs
• 200g pitted dates
• 290ml oz boiling water
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

For the sauce:

• 55g butter, diced
• 110ml double cream
• 55g dark muscovado sugar
• 2 tbsp black treacle
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• Vanilla ice cream (optional to serve)

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 200c/ 400f/ Gas mark 6 and individually flour 6 pudding moulds.
2. Place the butter and sugar into a food processor and blend until the mixture becomes pale and fluffy, once creamed add the golden syrup, treacle and eggs little by little and continue blending until smooth. Then add the flour and at a low speed blend until the mixture is well combined. Once complete add the mixture to a bowl.
3. Whilst doing this blend the dates and boiling water together in a food processor and blend into a smooth puree, once completed stir in the bicarbonate of soda and vanilla.
4. Pour the date mixture into the pudding batter and stir until the mixture well combined.
5. Pour the mixture into the moulds and bake for 20-25 minutes, or until the top is golden-brown and has a spring to it.
6. In order to make the sauce, place all ingredients into a pan and stir occasionally until boiled.
7. Once both are completed place the pudding onto a serving bowl and pour the sauce over the pudding and serve with vanilla ice cream.

Allergens and Dietary Suitability:

Gluten containing cereals. Fish. Tree Nuts (such as walnut, hazelnut, almond etc.). Soya. Eggs. Milk.