Ingredients :
- For the cake:
- 250 g pitted dates
- 100 g butter, softened
- 270 g dark brown soft sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 375 g plain flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- For the toffee sauce:
- 200 ml double cream
- 215 g caster sugar
- 60 g butter
- extra 200ml double cream, to mix into the toffee
- cream or ice-cream to serve
Method :
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4. Butter and line with parchment a round 20cm tin. Place the dates in a pan with 400ml water and bring to the boil. Cook them for 10-15 minutes until the liquid is almost gone. Puree in a blender and leave to cool.
- Meanwhile cream the butter with the sugar until smooth, add the eggs one by one, mixing continuously. Sieve in the flour with the baking powder and mix until combined. Finally, fold in the date puree with a spatula.
- Prepare the sauce: place the ingredients except the extra cream in a large pan – it will boil vigorously and bubble up to the top.
- Bring to the boil and cook on high heat stirring frequently, for about 20-30 minutes. When it thickens considerably and becomes dark gold, take it off the heat and beat in the extra cream. Don’t worry if the toffee starts splitting while cooking, the cold cream will smooth it out again.
- Cut the cake horizontally in three layers. Spread some warm sauce over each layer and re-assemble. Spoon some sauce over the top, reserving about a third to serve.
- To serve, warm the sauce up in a pan and the slices of cake in a microwave for 10-20 seconds, pour a little warm sauce over the slices and add a dollop of crème fraîche or ice cream. Gorgeously sickly!
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