Award-winning Hawksmoor isn’t simply well-known for its scrumptious steak and cocktails, it’s identified for its sticky toffee pudding, and because the colder climate hits, it’s the right crowd-pleasing pud to make. Count on an excellent mild sponge that’s drenched in oh-so-rich toffee sauce that you simply simply can’t get sufficient of. And naturally, high off with some extra cream. This recipe is from “Hawksmoor: Eating places and Recipes” by Will Beckett and Huw Gott.
Components
• 125g chopped dates
• 3g bicarbonate of soda
• 190ml boiling water
• 55g unsalted butter
• 65g mild muscovado sugar
• 65g darkish muscovado sugar
• 1 egg
• 30ml Somerset Cider Brandy
• 225g self-raising flour
• 4g baking powder
• A pinch of Maldon sea salt
• Clotted cream to serve
For The Toffee Sauce
• 4g baking powder
• A pinch of Maldon sea salt
• Clotted cream to serve
• 95g darkish muscovado sugar
• 30g mild muscovado sugar
• 125g unsalted butter
• 125ml double cream
• A pinch of sea salt
• 30ml Somerset Cider Brandy
Instructions
1. To make these you have to 4 85mm x 50mm aluminium pudding basins.
2. Preheat your oven to 170°C/325°F/gasoline mark.
3. Put the chopped dates, bicarbonate of soda, and water right into a saucepan and boil for seven to eight minutes, stirring regularly till very darkish. Take off the warmth and put aside.
4. In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or with a handheld electrical whisk, cream collectively the butter and each muscovado sugars.
5. Combine within the egg, adopted by the brandy, flour, baking powder, and a pinch of salt.
Lastly, add the date combination.
6. Totally grease your pudding tins and pour the combination evenly into them. Prepare dinner within the oven for round 25 minutes, till risen and cooked by.
7. Take away from the oven and funky within the tins earlier than turning out.
8. In the meantime, make the toffee sauce. In a saucepan, gently warmth collectively all of the sauce elements other than the brandy. 9. As soon as the butter and sugar have melted, flip up the warmth and simmer gently for 5 minutes.
10. Flip off the warmth, add the brandy, and depart to chill somewhat earlier than serving.
11. Serve the pudding with the nice and cozy toffee sauce and a beneficiant serving to of clotted cream.
COURTESY OF HAWKSMOOR
RECIPE BY WILL BECKETT & HUW GOTT
PHOTO BY EDWARD HOWELL
