PUDDINGS
5oz butter
3oz castor sugar
beat together
Add 3 eggs and beat
Add 6oz siever self raising flour
Mix together: 6oz chopped dates
3/4 tsp bicarb. of soda
1tsp vanilla essence
1tsp coffee essence
6 fl oz boiling water
Add to sponge mixture (makes a very sloppy mix). Grease eight small pudding tins and fill to 2/3 full.
Gas mark 4 / 175degrees C for 25 minutes
Remove from oven and turn out.
SAUCE
4oz butter, 6oz soft brown sugar, 1/4pt double cram.
Melt gently over low heat until boiling.
Add chopped pecan nuts.
Out puddings in deep baking dish. Spoon sauce over puds (move nuts off top of puds), then under the gril for 8 mins on high heat. OR put in oven at 200degrees C from cold at the start of the meal, they'll be ready to eat once you finish your main course.
I have one in which you make the cake and then the sauce, but its still just as good, and what I love is you can freeze the cake and only make the sauce when you want to eat it.
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