Sticky Toffee Pudding Skillet
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.
Servings 8 servings
Ingredients
- ¼ cup ½ stick of Butter
- 1 ½ cups of All Purpose Flour
- 1 ½ cups of Chopped Pitted Dates 8 ounces
- 1 ¼ cups Water
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Sea Salt
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 2 Eggs
- A Non-Stick Oven Safe Skillet 10 inch
- 1 batch of Whiskey Caramel Sauce
- Vanilla Gelato or Ice Cream
Instructions
- Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Combine the chopped dates and 1 ¼ 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.
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.
