Sticky Date Pudding for a large dinner party

This recipe is great for entertaining a large number of people for lunch or dinner and makes at least 16 serves. It is best to bake this in a large ceramic baking dish. It is one of my favourite puddings.

When the temperatures plummet, as they have even in North Queensland, what could be better than a delicious, warming dessert, served with ice-cream of course and this amazing Caramel Sauce. 

This is Berenice's recipe, an ex-teaching colleague of Mr. HRK, and this is how it was served at the Second Semester  Retiree Teacher's Lunch that we attended. Just halve the ingredients for a smaller number of people. So simple, it's a winner.

 Ingredients:

340 gm Dates

3 tspns Bi-carbonate soda

600 ml Water

340 gm Castor Sugar

340 gm SR Flour

4 Eggs

125 gm Butter

Boil dates 5 mins in water. Remove from heat and add sugar, butter and bi-carb. Cool. Add eggs and fold in flour. Bake in Moderate oven for 1 hour.

(Makes a very large quantity – at least 16 serves.)

Caramel Sauce

Ingredients:

125 gm Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

1 cup Water

2 tblspns Golden or Maple Syrup

¼ cup Cream

1 ½ tblspns Corn Flour

Combine butter and sugar and stir over low heat until mixture turns to thick syrup. Bring to boil. Simmer 3 minutes. Combine water, syrup and cornflour and add to mixture. Stir until boiling. Simmer 2 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in cream.

For another dessert perfect to serve at a party with the Sticky Date Pudding, the
Chocolate Raspberry Pudding Cake works a treat. For the recipe click on this link.