Sticky Date Pudding by MasterChef Winner Emilia Jackson

Ingredients

330g dates, pitted and diced
1 cup boiling water
2 tsp bicarb
200g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
100g unsalted butter, super soft
2 eggs
50g brown sugar

Caramel sauce:

400g thickened cream
200g dark brown sugar
70g unsalted butter
2 tsp vanilla

Method

Combine all the ingredients and dates together and mix until cohesive.

Pour into your pudding dish and bake at 160 C (Sarah uses the intensive bake function on her Belling oven, which cooks the pudding in 15 minutes). If you don't have a standard oven, just check at the 15-minute mark, as you'll be pretty close.

For the sauce, combine ingredients into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Pour half the sauce over the hot pudding, reserving the other half to serve.

Credits: Emilia Jackson

Photo Credits: Emilia Jackson