Today’s fab recipe comes to us courtesy of the lovely Terese Grove. Check out that last pic. Yum, oh YUUUM! Pass me a spoon…
Ingredients:
Pudding
200gms pitted dates
1 cup water
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
100gms butter (softened)
2/3 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ cups SR flour
Sauce
1 cup soft brown sugar
½ cup cream
100gms butter
Preheat oven to 180C.
Prepare cake tin or spring form cake tin.
Method:
Pudding
Combine dates and water in a small saucepan. Bring to boil.
Remove from heat and stir in bicarbonate of soda. Set aside to cool.
Using electric beaters or mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time and beat to combine. Add vanilla and mix/beat through. Fold in flour, and cooled date mixture, stir to combine.
Pour into cake tin. Bake for 30 -40 minutes. Check at 30 minutes.
Leave to cool for 15 minutes then turn out on to serving plate/board.
Sauce
Combine sugar, cream and butter together in a saucepan and stir until butter and sugar melt/combine. Simmer for 2 mins.
Variation:
Pour pudding mix into a 12 muffin tin for individual puddings, prepared with muffin wrappers.
Approx 15 – 20 minutes cooking time. Check at 15 minutes
Serve pudding/s warm with vanilla ice cream and sauce.
Terese Grove describes herself as “just your average 45+ working girl, and new grandmother who loves fabric, paper, stationery, sewing, being creative, and living for the time I can finish working full time.” She has a Certificate IV in Colour and Design, Certificate IV in Training and Accreditation, Diploma in Colour Design and a Diploma in Surface Design.
In her spare time she sews, screen prints, designs fabrics, and creates home wares for herself.
You can find more of Terese’s work on her sites designed to a T and jane on jane st.
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