Vegan Sticky Toffee Pudding – Connoisseurus Veg

December 15, 2023

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This vegan sticky toffee pudding is made with tremendous moist date-filled sponge muffins smothered in candy buttery toffee sauce. It is completely delicious and excellent for holidays and particular events!

Toffee sauce being drizzled over Vegan Sticky Toffee Pudding and ice cream in a bowl.

I wasn’t accustomed to sticky toffee pudding till I began running a blog and actually being attentive to completely different dishes from around the globe. Sticky toffee pudding is a basic British dessert. Right here within the states the place I stay it isn’t as widespread, and we in all probability would have given it a distinct title, like sticky toffee muffins.

Pudding, to me, is a variation on custard — a creamy dessert that you just eat out of a cup with a spoon, like rice pudding, chocolate pudding, or tapioca pudding. However I’ve realized that it is extra of a catchall time period for all types of desserts within the U.Ok.

In any occasion, if this dish is a brand new one for you, you are in for a serious deal with! It consists of little sponge muffins flavored with brown sugar and dates, and, here is the perfect half: they’re served smothered in sticky, gooey toffee sauce. OH YEAH.

There are a handful of the way of constructing the dish, some involving steps like baking on the toffee coating or layering it with the cake, however I stored factor easy when creating my vegan sticky toffee pudding recipe. We’re simply making single-serving muffins and pouring on the sauce. Further accompaniments like nuts and non-dairy ice cream are non-compulsory, however fantastic additions!

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Components You will Want

Dried medjool dates. Most grocery shops carry these close to the opposite dried fruits, or within the produce aisle. Purchase pitted ones if you happen to can. This may prevent the step of getting to take away the pits your self.
Apple cider vinegar. See my listing of apple cider vinegar substitutes if you happen to want one.
Non-dairy milk. Any selection that is unflavored and unsweetened will work simply effective for this recipe. My information to dairy-free milks can assist if you happen to’re misplaced!
Floor flaxseed.
Flour. We’re utilizing all-purpose wheat flour, in any other case often called white flour. Different varieties like spelt and complete wheat pastry flour will in all probability work, however I have never examined the recipe with them, so no ensures.
Baking powder.
Baking soda.
Salt.
Vegan butter. Vegan butter will be discovered close to the common butter in most supermarkets. I developed this recipe utilizing Earth Steadiness, in order that’s my high advice if you happen to want one.
Brown sugar. Use natural brown sugar to maintain the recipe vegan. Typical brown sugar could also be processed utilizing animal bone char.
Vanilla extract.
Coconut cream. That is offered in cans, close to the canned coconut milk. If you cannot discover it, seize a few cans of full-fat coconut milk as a substitute, and chill them within the fridge in a single day. The coconut milk will separate into coconut water and a thick white stable portion, which is the coconut cream.

Tip: Whereas not required, toppings and accompaniments are nice with sticky toffee pudding. Strive vegan vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, and nuts like chopped pecans or walnuts.

How It is Made

The next is an in depth picture tutorial on the right way to make this dish. Scroll all the best way down if you would like to skip proper to the recipe!

Place your dates right into a blender or meals processor bowl and add just-boiled water and a little bit of apple cider vinegar. Let the dates soak for a couple of minutes to melt up. You possibly can skip forward and get began on a number of the different prep steps within the recipe within the meantime!

As soon as the dates have soaked for a couple of minutes, mix them up till they’re easy. This may take a couple of minutes in case your mixing machine is not high-powered, so be affected person.

Mixture of non-dairy milk and ground flaxseeds in a liquid measuring cup with spoon.

Stir the non-dairy milk and floor flaxseeds collectively in a small container. Let the combination sit for a couple of minutes to gel. That is our egg substitute for the muffins.

Dry ingredients for sticky toffee pudding cakes in a mixing bowl with whisk.

Whereas your flax egg gels, whisk the dry substances collectively in a big bowl: flour, baking powder, baking soda, and water.

Tip: Be sure your non-dairy milk is at about room temperature. This would possibly imply warming it up if it has been within the fridge.

Creamed brown sugar and vegan butter in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer.

Place room temperature vegan butter and brown sugar in a big mixing bowl and cream them along with an electrical mixer. Add the vanilla.

Blend of vegan butter, brown sugar, and flax egg in a mixing bowl with electric mixer.

Now add the flax egg to the bowl and beat all the things collectively for a full minute, till the combination is creamy, pale, and a bit fluffy.

Blended vegan butter, brown sugar, flax egg, and date puree in a mixing bowl with electric mixer.

Add the date combination to the bowl and hold beating all the things collectively.

Cake batter in a mixing bowl with electric mixer.

Lastly, start beating within the flour combination at low pace. Add it in two or three increments.

Six ramekins filled with cake batter on a baking sheet.

Switch the batter to 6 flippantly oiled ramekins. Place them on a baking sheet and pop it within the oven. Bake the muffins till a toothpick inserted into the middle of 1 comes out clear.

Tip: Ideally you may wish to use 4 ounce ramekins for this recipe, but when you do not have them, use a muffin tin as a substitute. Since muffin tins are a bit smaller, you may must make seven muffins and shave a couple of minutes off of the bake time.

Toffee sauce in a saucepan with a whisk.

Make the toffee sauce whereas the muffins bake. Mix coconut cream, vegan butter, brown sugar, and salt in a saucepan. Warmth all the things as much as soften the butter and coconut cream, then deliver the combination to a boil. Decrease the warmth and let it simmer for five minutes.

Take the pot off of warmth and let the sauce cool. It is going to thicken up because it does.

Tip: You possibly can serve the toffee sauce heat if you would like — it’s going to simply be thinner.

As soon as your muffins have cooled, fastidiously take away them from the ramekins. Invert every cake on a plate or in a bowl and drizzle it with the sauce. Optionally, you possibly can pile toppings like nuts and non-dairy ice cream in your vegan sticky toffee pudding.

Bowl of Vegan Sticky Toffee Pudding with a chunk scooped out with a spoon.

Dig in!

Leftovers & Storage

Retailer leftover muffins and toffee sauce individually in hermetic containers within the fridge. They’re going to hold for as much as 5 days. The muffins can be frozen for as much as three months.

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