Sticky Date Puddings

My mum rang to invite us over for a family dinner, my auntie (dad's sister) was staying for a few days.  She lives in Gippsland and comes down from time to time.  I volunteered to make dessert.  Usually I like to go a bit overboard and make something a bit fancy.  This time I went for comfort food.  


The recipe I use is Karen Martini's Sticky Date Pudding.  She made it on Better Homes and Gardens a few years ago.  I found a copy of the recipe here.  I stashed a cutting of it somewhere and haven't seen it since!  I have a lifelong goal to manage all my recipe cuttings and there are just a few cuttings!!


I've made this pudding a few times and usually in a large rectangular ceramic dish.  This time I decided to make individual puddings and used large muffin tins, just under a cup (250ml) volume.   I had 8 puddings but needed 9, so just did a bit of judicious scooping and managed to make 9.  You could also use normal muffin/cup cake tins.  If I were to make them for me and The Bloke, I'd freeze the rest.  With the caramel sauce, I would halve it because I'm not sure it would freeze or how long it would keep in the fridge.  

Butter, cream and brown sugar melted together for caramel sauce

Caramel sauce

I had instructed The Bloke to remind me to take a photo of the pudding when it was ready to serve, with the lovely caramel sauce on top and dollop of whipped cream, but I only remembered when I'd finished eating it!