Sticky Toffee Date Cake - Heavenly Cake Ideal For Christmas!

         

Spread joy and warmth around, during this festive season with this beautiful cake!

The perfect combination of the richness of dates and the sticky sweetness of the toffee sauce make this cake rich, moist, and totally irresistible! 

I personally feel this is an ideal cake for Christmas time as it gives such warmth and richness to match the winter weather and the festive atmosphere.  

Make this on the previous day, allowing all the flavours and juices to infuse properly.  Serve the daintily-cut, triangle cake pieces with a pool of toffee sauce.

Ingredients needed for the cake;

Ingredients            Amounts

Wet dates           250g
Self-raising fl     150g
Brown sugar      150g
Eggs                    2
Margarine            65g
Bicarb powder     1tsp
Water                1cup
Salt pinches        3
Lemon Juice and Vanilla(a few drops)          For the toffee sauce
Brown sugar    5tbsp
Butter              3tbsp
Milk                3tbsp
Salt pinches    1

Let’s make it

• Cut the dates into small pieces

• Place the date pieces and water into a deep pan and boil for up to 5mins.  Do not overboil as the dates will become a sticky pulp

• Switch the flame off and add 1tsp of bicarbonate of soda and mix well
• Add sugar and stir until dissolved

• Next, add margarine and give a good mix

• Beat the 2 eggs lightly and add to the mixture

• Add the flour little by little while mixing gradually

• Now,  add a drop of lemon juice and vanilla and mix until everything combines properly

• Pour the batter onto a round cake tray (line up the tray with parchment paper or rub butter and dust with flour)

• Keep aside 15 mins for all the flavours to incorporate properly

• Bake in the lower rack of the oven for 20 mins under 180C degrees

• After 20 mins stab a skewer and check if it comes clean.  If not, keep it in the oven for a little longer

• Keep the cake cool off completely in the tray itself

• Once cooled off, take the cake out slowly and remove the lining, and stab with a skewer in several places

How to make the Toffee sauce

• Add 5 tbsp of sugar into a thick bottom pan and switch the flame on to medium

• Let the sugar turn golden

• Add butter immediately and give a good stir

• Then add milk and a pinch of salt and stir under low flame until the sugar crystals melt and turn into a thick sauce

• Take off  the flame and keep it to cool off completely

• Pour half of it over the cake letting the sauce run through the holes

• Smear more sauce all over the top

• Leave the cake overnight for the best taste!

• Drizzle the rest of the toffee sauce over the cake slices and serve

• Yum! Yum!