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Sticky Date Cake with Hot Toffee Sauce Recipe

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sticky date toffee cake with hot toffee sauce

Sticky date toffee cake with hot toffee sauce: Date cakes seem to be really popular in Australia. While it pales in comparison to the popularity of banana bread, This sticky date cake is by far the best cake I have ever baked with no chocolate in it. Chocolate cakes are my weakness and specialty but now I must add dates to the list. I always seem to have luck while cooking or baking with them.

This recipe is adapted from the brilliant book ‘A Passion for Baking’ by Marcy Goldman  from where I baked the Toblerone Shortbread, which many of you loved for its simplicity. This cake is not as straightforward but it was yummy with such little effort.

I took step by step pictures and then realised there are way too many pictures. I put them in collages although I am not a fan of posting steps like this. Hope it’s easy enough to understand, do leave your thoughts.

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Sticky Date Toffee Cake with Hot Toffee Sauce
 
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Sticky Date Toffee Cake with Hot Toffee Sauce, a fabulous date cake recipe that popular in Australia.
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Recipe type: Cake
Cuisine: International
Serves: 10 slices
Ingredients
For the date cake:
  • ¾ cups pitted dates
  • ¾ cups water
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ¼ cup unsalted butter, softened (room temp)
  • ½ cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • 2 tbsp white sugar
  • 1 tsp grated orange zest
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup flour
  • ¾ tsp baking powder
  • A pinch of salt
For the hot toffee sauce:
  • ¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • ½ cup cream
  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 drops of vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 350F / 180C
  2. Grease a springform cake pan or a normal round cake tin with butter
  3. In a saucepan, simmer dates in water and vanilla until they are soft and almost mushy (about 3-4 mins)
  4. Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. The mixture will foam a bit. Mix well and set aside to cool completely
  5. In a bowl, cream butter with both sugars and orange zest until fluffy
  6. Blend in eggs and then fold in flour, baking powder and salt
  7. Then add the dates and mix until well combined
  8. Then add the dates and mix until well combined
  9. Pour into prepared cake pan
  10. Bake for 40-50 mins or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. If the cake has crowned, cut off the top until the cake is level
To Make Hot Toffee Sauce
  1. Bring brown sugar, cream and butter to a gentle boil and let simmer for 5-7 mins until the mixture thickens
  2. Remove from fire and stir in vanilla
  3. Poke holes over the cake and pour the sauce when still warm all over it

Step One
Pre-heat oven to 350F / 180C. Grease a springform cake pan or a normal round cake tin with butter.

Step Two 
sticky date toffee cake with hot toffee sauce

In a saucepan, simmer dates in water and vanilla until they are soft and almost mushy (about 3-4 mins). Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. The mixture will foam a bit. Mix well and set aside to cool completely.

Step Three
sticky date toffee cake with hot toffee sauceIn a bowl, cream butter with both sugars and orange zest until fluffy. Blend in eggs and then fold in flour, baking powder and salt. Then add the dates and mix until well combined.

Step Four
sticky date toffee cake with hot toffee sauceBlend in eggs and then fold in flour, baking powder and salt.

Step Five
sticky date toffee cake with hot toffee sauceThen add the dates and mix until well combined. Pour into prepared cake pan.

Step Six
sticky date toffee cake with hot toffee sauceBake for 40-50 mins, until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. If the cake has crowned, cut off the top until the cake is level.

To Make Hot Toffee Sauce
sticky date toffee cake with hot toffee sauceBring brown sugar, cream and butter to a gentle boil and let simmer for 5-7 mins until the mixture thickens. Remove from fire and stir in vanilla. Set aside.

sticky date toffee cake with hot toffee sauce

Once the cake is done and when it’s still warm, poke holes with a skewer and pour the sauce over, allowing the cake to absorb it. Serve slightly warm or at room temperature.

Do yourself a favour and bake this sticky date cake NOW. Don’t miss out the toffee sauce, the cake will definitely not taste as good without it.
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  5. I saw this recipe yesterday (in fact i happened to see your blog yesterday and I am glad I did) and instantly I knew I had to try this. My 8.5 month baby in my womb told me he/she wanted it. So I made it today and OM… heavenly.. Thanks a lot for the recipe…

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  6. I saw the recipe yesterday (in fact I happen to see your blog yesterday for the first time) and i knew right then and there that I had to make it… I made it today and OMG… heavenly.. my husband loved it… 🙂 . Thanks a lot..

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  16. Hello Rupa, sorry I missed the comment yesterday. Egg substitutes are there for cakes, my favorite being yogurt. You could try replacing the 2 eggs with 1/2 cup thick yogurt. Add in the place of eggs in the cake making process. Another option is this:
    1 egg = 2 Tbsp. water + 1 Tbsp. oil + 2 tsp. baking powder

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  39. Pictures looks so perfect, and the cake looks very tempting. I too have done this cake before for Hariraya for my neighbors.
    Wish to have some bites from ur cake too..

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