Sometimes there are foods that we love so much, but have never made at home. Gluten-Free Sticky Date Pudding with Toffee Sauce is one such food. Up until I married my husband, I would have never touched the stuff. Dates? I would totally wrinkle my nose and tell you that only my grandmother and mother ate dates, and that they did because they were weird. When you’re a child, I suppose that’s allowed. But then one day you grow up and get brave and start eating things that never sounded appealing before. Like dates. Then your own children look at you like you’re the one who’s strange and wonder how you could eat something so bizarre. Of course, if you’re like me, you wonder how you were ever such a picky child and how your own children can eat such disgusting things as (well, I won’t say) but won’t try something as delicious as say, a date. Full circle, I believe that’s called.
For years and years, ever since we got married, my husband has been asking me to make sticky date pudding with toffee sauce for him. Every single Christmas. And I never would. I honestly don’t know why it took me eleven years, but this is the year I’ve finally made some. I found a recipe on Epicurious that had high ratings and decided to give it a go. I did make a few alterations; one being that I used gluten-free flour so I could also eat it. I added some pecans because PECANS. They make everything better. I also spiced it up by adding a heaping teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice to the batter. I wish you could have been here to smell that pudding as it baked! So many delicious smells between the pudding and the toffee sauce.
So since I brought it up, let’s discuss toffee sauce. Can we all just be honest about it? Sure, the pudding itself tastes fine and dandy, but really, it’s just a vehicle for toffee sauce. I swear it is! The sauce is purely addictive and more delicious than any sauce has a right to be. I bribed my children to try the pudding by letting them taste the sauce first and telling them they could have more sauce on the pudding. And you know what? They’re kids so they ate the sauce that puddled at the bottom of the bowl and none of the pudding.
Read more and get the recipe after the jump.
That’s okay. I was more than happy to finish off their bowls for them. (They were small bowls.) And they are children. So they are allowed. This is more of a dessert for grownups and I get that. That’s why I let them have a cookie for dessert and I sneak another spoonful of warm pudding and ladle on that wicked good sauce.
Puddings are a funny thing, aren’t they? They look terrible! Totally unappetizing, but they are completely delicious. I’m finding my tastes are becoming more fuddy-duddy as I’m getting older. I like a cookie once in awhile, sure, but a warm pudding studded with dried fruit is what really satisfies my sweet tooth. (I just aged like 30 years, didn’t I?)
Anyway, Christmas is the time for puddings. I have dreams of one day pulling off an entirely English Christmas where everything in our home – decorations to food – is reminiscent of the Christmases we read about in Charles Dickens’ novels. For several years I even roasted a goose and made lovely sage and onion dressing, Yorkshire pudding, and browned potatoes. We make the wassail every year. There are mince pies starting at Thanksgiving and lasting well into the New Year. And now there will always be a sticky date pudding with plenty of toffee sauce. So it may not be a full month, but there are bits and pieces. And even if there is only the hope or desire for it this year, it will still be enough, and this sticky date pudding with its incredibly fattening toffee sauce will suffice as well. The next English dessert to try is my friend Becky’s Easy Christmas Plum Pudding. I might even add a sprig of holly, douse it with spirits, and light it like the Crachits do. :)
PrintGluten-Free Sticky Date Pudding with Toffee Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups packed pitted dates (about 10 ounces)
- 2 cups water
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 cups gluten-free all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 stick (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- For toffee sauce:
- 1 3/4 sticks (3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons) unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 cups packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 Tablespoon honey
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1–2 Tablespoons of bourbon (I used Makers Mark)
Instructions
- Instructions:
- For pudding:
- Preheat oven to 375°F. and butter and flour an 8-inch square baking pan (2 inches deep), knocking out excess flour.
- Coarsely chop dates and in a 1 1/2- to 2-quart saucepan simmer dates in water, uncovered, 5 minutes. Remove pan from heat and stir in baking soda. (Mixture will foam.) Let mixture stand 20 minutes.
- While mixture is standing, into a bowl sift together flour, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, and salt. In a large bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract. Add flour mixture in 3 batches, beating after each addition until just combined. Fold in pecans and date mixture and with a wooden spoon stir batter until just well-combined.
- Pour batter into baking pan and set pan in a larger baking pan. Add enough hot water to larger pan to reach halfway up sides of smaller pan. Cover the pan with a piece of buttered parchment paper and then a piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil. Seal it as tightly as you can. Bake on the middle rack of oven until a tester inserted into the middle comes out clean, 60 to 75 minutes*. Remove smaller pan from water bath. Let pudding cool slightly before serving.
- For toffee sauce:
- In a 1 1/2- to 2-quart heavy saucepan melt butter over moderate heat and add brown sugar. Bring mixture to a boil, stirring occasionally, and stir in cream and vanilla. Simmer sauce, stirring occasionally, until thickened slightly, about 5 minutes. Cool sauce to warm.
- Cut warm pudding into squares. Serve pudding with ice cream and warm sauce.
- *The original recipe says 35-40 minutes, but mine was still soupy at that point.
Notes
adapted slightly from Gourmet, May 1998, original recipe here
180 Comments
Blast! I wish I’d seen this in time for Christmas, but I’ve got time… and this is most definitely in my future. Really lovely photos as always!
Mix in the ginger? Do you mean the pumpkin pie spice? There is no ginger on the ingredients list.
Good catch! That is from the original recipe. I tweaked it by adding pumpkin spice instead of just ginger. It’s changed in the recipe now. :)
As well, you forgot to include the pecans and vanilla in the directions, therefore They were left out of my cake. Not happy with this poorly typed recipe.
You’re right, Arlene! It is pretty inexcusable to have a poorly edited recipe up on my blog. I typed it up from the original recipe which didn’t include some of the changes I made and I simply forgot to add them in. Sadly, it’s just me, not an editorial team who looks over the posts and occasionally I miss things. Any typos, omissions, or other mistakes are honest ones. As I recall, this recipe is still very good even without the pecans and vanilla. Sorry for ruining your dessert!
This is truly a wonderful recipe! I will never use another. We have used this recipe for the last three Christmases and it is the only dessert that everyone eats and loves! Then I inevitably get asked to make this dessert for birthdays and other occasions because it is loved so much! Thank you! My family are the only gluten free eaters and it is still loved by all!
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