My Sticky Toffee Pudding Skillet combines the Brits' love of sticky toffee pudding with the Americans' love of skillet cookies. It’s a dessert mash up that works. You can either give everyone a spoon and eat right out of the skillet, or you can slice the cake into pieces and serve it on plates. It is totally up to you.
Servings8servings
Ingredients
1/4cup1/2 stick of Butter
1 1/2cupsof All Purpose Flour
1 1/2cupsof Chopped Pitted Dates8 ounces
1 1/4cupsWater
1teaspoonBaking Soda
1teaspoonBaking Powder
1/2teaspoonSea Salt
1cupGranulated Sugar
1teaspoonVanilla
2Eggs
A Non-Stick Oven Safe Skillet10 inch
1batch of Whiskey Caramel Sauce
Vanilla Gelato or Ice Cream
Instructions
Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Combine the chopped dates and 1 1/4 water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and then remove from the heat and add the baking soda. When you add the baking soda it will make the mixture foamy and it will rise a bit in the pan. Let cool for 10 minutes.
Pour the flour into a bowl and whisk it to remove any clumps. Then add the baking powder and salt.
Pour the butter, sugar, and vanilla into the bowl of an electric mixer and beat together on a medium speed until mixed. Then mix in one egg.
Next, add half of the flour mixture and half of the date mixture to the butter mixture, beat to combine. Once combined add the remaining egg, flour mixture, and date mixture. Beat to combine.
While the cake is baking. Prepare the whiskey caramel sauce.
Pour the batter into a non stick skillet. Bake for 40 - 45 minutes until the center has set. Test this by inserting a toothpick into the center of the cake and making sure that it comes out clean.
Serve the sticky toffee skillet warm with warm caramel sauce and a big scoop of ice cream.
Recipe Notes
This Sticky Toffee Pudding Skillet is a moist mild tasting cake that has a flavor similar to brown sugar (even though it isn’t an ingredient in the cake) that is covered with a homemade whiskey caramel sauce. Then I like to add a scoop of vanilla gelato on top. It’s sweet without being sticky sweet and it is a perfect dessert for someone who likes caramel.