Vegan Sticky Toffee Pudding With Gooey Sauce

Sticky toffee pudding is apparently the world’s favourite dessert, popular also in Australia where it’s called ‘steam date pudding’. The dark sponge cake contains finely chopped dates, and is topped by a rich bubbly toffee sauce. Served warm with vegan ice-cream or custard.

Easy vegan sticky toffee pudding (Madeleine Olivia) uses maple syrup to sweeten the sauce.

Several places claim to have invented it, the winner likely a shop in a small town in Cumbria, due to imports years ago at Whitehaven of dates, treacle and rum. However a Yorkshire inn also says it was the inventor!

Although sticky toffee pudding contains dates, it doesn’t taste of them, as they are pureed into the batter to produce a sticky caramel taste. Most recipes also include black treacle for added wickendes! After baking, the sponge is poked with holes, so the toffee sauce can drizzle through it, before serving.

Sticky toffee pudding is apparently the world’s favourite dessert, invented in a small town in Cumbria, England. It’s just as popular in Australia, where it’s called ‘steam date pudding’.

Keep sticky toffee pudding away from pets, due to dried fruits and nutmeg. 

For these recipes, use a good ice-cold vegan block butter with no palm oil (Flora and Myoko’s are good brands). Also be sure not to overmix the dough, and leave stem vents when baking.

If using tinned ingredients, rinse/remove lids (or pop ring-pulls over holes) then step on the can to pinch the inner rims together, to avoid wildlife getting trapped at recycling points.

Pumpkin Sticky Toffee Pudding (School Night Vegan) is full of autumn ingredients like pumpkin puree, black treacle or molasses and spices. The sauce even includes vegan double cream!

Contains nutmeg, so keep well away from pets.

Vegan steamed maple syrup pudding

This steamed maple syrup pudding (Domestic Gothess) is a different take. The egg is replaced by tangy yoghurt, and the pudding is served with lashings of vegan custard.