12 Jul Date and nut pudding


Ingredients
Pudding
- 250 g dates, chopped
- 1 cup Boiling water
- 5 ml Bicarbonate of soda
- 115 g Butter
- 200 g brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 240 g SASKO cake flour
- 5 ml baking powder
- 5 ml salt
- 100 g almonds, crushed
Sauce
- 100 ml Willow Creek blood orange flavoured olive oil
- 500 ml Full cream milk
- 250 ml water
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 5 ml salt
- 15 ml Vanilla essence
Instructions
Pudding
- Oven Temperature: 160 degrees Celsius
- Pour the boiling water over the dates and leave to soak for 10 minutes.
- Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy and whip in the eggs.
- Mix the bicarb into the dates and add to the egg mix.
- Mix through and add the dry ingredients.
- Mix the batter well and pour into a prepared oven dish.
- Scatter over the almonds and bake until golden brown and cooked.
Sauce
- Place all the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Pour over the pudding when it comes out of the oven.