sticky toffee pudding & caramel sauce

Sticky Toffee Pudding, aka: sticky date cake (or pudding), has to be one of the simplest, yet best desserts created. There are many versions of this timeless dessert & this dear reader, is my version. I can’t lay claim to creating the recipe, it’s one of those recipes that came from somewhere & it evolved, but it’s a recipe I’ve made so many times I don’t need to read the recipe, I know it off-by-heart – no great feat really as there are but a mere handful of ingredients required to make this perfectly moist, delectable dessert – thanks to the dates. While on the subject of dates: baking dates are perfectly acceptable if that’s all you can find but, medjool dates, plump & caramel-like, are my favourite. You might see versions of the recipe with the caramel/toffee sauce being pour over the pudding once out of the oven, or baked with the sauce over it & while I might, on occasion, slather some sauce over the top & pop it back into the oven for 5 minutes, my preference is to cut it into pieces first & serve the warm cake generously drizzled with the warm sauce. This is a favourite with friends & family back in Australia. And now in my adoptive country, America. I hope you love it so much it becomes a family & friend favourite of yours too.