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Sticky Toffee Bread Pudding

Updated: 10.27.23 | Marc Matsumoto | 1 Comment

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This Sticky Toffee Bread Pudding is a mashup of two British classics with a rich, decadent vanilla bean bread pudding and a sticky toffee date sauce.
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A serving of Sticky Toffee Bread Pudding on a black plate with a fork, slathered with whipped cream

While the word "pudding" tends to refer to a class of egg-and-starch-thickened desserts in the US, in other English-speaking regions of the world it can refer to a range of sweet and savory dishes. Sticky Toffee Pudding is one example of the broader definition, and is usually made with a date-infused cake topped with a rich toffee sauce. While its history only goes back about 40 years, it's become a modern classic that can be found in restaurants and homes around the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

It's a supremely comforting dish to eat, but the smell of caramelizing sugar and butter makes it equally comforting to make. I've spent this summer travelling around the US, working in kitchens in Colorado and New York. If you follow me on social media, you probably know I had a little mishap in Colorado that led to some helicopter rides, a dozen x-rays, a CAT scan, and a 2 ½ hour surgery to put the pieces of my right wrist back together. Given the speed at which I was traveling on a 4-wheeler when it rolled, and the fact that I wasn't wearing a helmet, I feel pretty lucky to be alive and relatively unscathed. To make a long story short, I'm finally back home and am definitely in a need of a bit of comfort.

A pan of Sticky Toffee Bread Pudding straight out of the oven.

For my first recipe since getting home, I decided to have a little fun and mashup two of my favorite comforting desserts, and came up with this Sticky Toffee Bread Pudding. By replacing the cake batter with vanilla bean custard-drenched sandwich bread and covering it in a sticky toffee sauce made from date syrup and butter, it strikes an awesome balance between a traditional bread pudding and a sticky toffee pudding.

Date syrup is a wonderful ingredient to have in your pantry and can be found in any Middle Eastern grocery store. It's made by reducing date juice into a thick molasses-like syrup, which tastes milder than molasses but has a robust caramel flavor, with just a hint of tartness. Aside from using it in this recipe, it makes for a flavorful sweetener for sauces and stews, and works equally well as a topping on yogurt, pancakes, and ice cream.

A serving of Sticky Toffee Bread Pudding from above.

To keep the pudding moist on the inside while getting a marvelously crisp topping, I kept it covered with foil through most of its time in the oven. Then, by removing the foil and turning up the heat at the end, you get a rich, decadent steamed pudding on the inside, with luscious sticky toffee sauce on the bottom, and a crisp caramelized top that provides a nice contrast to the dense interior.

If reading this post has set your cravings rumbling and they won't wait for you to bake this up, I have a ridiculously easy 5 Minute Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe that's mind-blowingly good and easy.

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Sticky Toffee Bread Pudding

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 40 minutes mins
Total Time 50 minutes mins
Yield 6 serving

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Ingredients 

  • 3 extra large eggs
  • 2 cups whole milk
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • 60 grams evaporated cane sugar (about ⅓ cup)
  • 1 vanilla bean
  • 500 grams stale sandwich bread (cut into 1-inch cubes)
  • ¾ cup date syrup
  • 4 tablespoons cultured unsalted butter (cut into small cubes)

Instructions

  • In a blender add the eggs, milk, cream, brown sugar and vanilla beans and blend until smooth.
  • Cut the bread into 1-inch cubes and add to a bowl with the custard. Toss until all the custard has been absorbed into the bread. Let this rest in the refrigerator for about an hour to ensure the custard has fully soaked into the bread.
  • Put the oven rack in the middle position and preheat to 350 degrees F (175 C).
  • Pour half the date syrup into the bottom of a 9x9-inch casserole dish and then add the soaked bread. Drizzle the remaining date syrup evenly on top of the bread and then distribute the butter evenly on top.
  • Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the foil and turn up the heat to 425 degrees F (220 C) and continue baking until the top is golden brown and slightly crisp (about another 10 minutes).
  • Serve warm with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
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  1. Unnatural Appetite says

    September 01, 2015 at 8:59 pm

    Glad to hear you're not too banged up!

    This looks great. Didn't realize that Sticky Toffee Pudding was such a recent innovation, it seemed so quintessentially British I assumed it had a longer history.

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