Everything you love about sticky toffee pudding but in the most tender, moist bundt cake form.
This cake was new to me. I hadn’t had Sticky Toffee Pudding in a million years. Now, before I go on, I do have to admit that when I first had this and was served cake, I thought someone had screwed up. I mean, I ordered pudding.
You know, pudding.. that creamy stuff in a cup or bowl. Well, this isn’t the pudding we Americans know. In Britain, the term “pudding” is used informally as a synonym for dessert, as in, “What would you like for pudding?”
However, for us Americans, this pudding is a dense, buttery, date-studded cake. The sticky part comes from the thick toffee sauce. The sauce is poured over the cake not once but twice: first as it comes out of the oven so the sticky toffee sweetness seeps into all the nooks and crannies, and again at serving time. The result is, as the name promises, unbelievably sticky. And utterly addictive.
Now it’s funny, as I’m one of those goofs who, when I make a non-American dessert, tend to talk or think in the accent that the dish stems from. I ONLY do this in the privacy of my kitchen as seriously I pretty much murder the dialect and it’s kinda creepy. I mean, c’mon, when you watch Julia, don’t you all speak in her symbolic Julia voice?
As you can see, this cake is just slathered with this incredibly thick, sticky toffee sauce, and those dates are just abundant throughout the cake!
And you know me, I can’t just leave well enough alone. I have to kick it up a notch and give it that TKW spin. So how did I do it with this one? Bourbon.. and LOTS OF IT!
Like when I tasted the batter I was like “WHOA! DUDE!” and thought about adding some more sugar to it but figured ‘Nah, let them be drunk on pudding!”. LOL This cooked up beautifully and the smell of the bourbon just spread through my kitchen like wildfire. It was truly intoxicating! Once I took the cake out and let it cool I started on the sauce.
Honestly if I had a spoon (and zero self-control) I would have just sat right down on my kitchen floor, hot pot between my legs eating this sauce as-is.
This cake is so super tender, and that sticky toffee bourbon sauce clung to my lips. Like THIS is the stuff they need to make lipcrack out of it!
To serve, I drizzled more on and ate it nekkid. No, I wasn’t nekkid, the cake was – meaning no whipped cream or ice cream. For me I actually loved it more with the vanilla bean ice cream and the simple whipped cream. It just added another textural layer to it that just worked.
So I strongly suggest that you go out, buy dates (as I’m sure most of you don’t have this as a regular staple in your pantry) and bourbon (unless you’re like me as I always have it here as it’s one of my favorite things to cook and bake it booze-wise!). And make this! You will be talking in that beautiful English accent before you know it!
Cheerio loves!
The Best Sticky Toffee Pudding Bourbon Bundt Cake Recipe
Everything you love about sticky toffee pudding but in the most tender, moist bundt cake form.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 12-14 slices
- Category: cakes, desserts, bundt, company cake, sweet tooth
- Method: oven
- Cuisine: cakes, desserts, bundt, company cake, sweet tooth
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 1/2 cups pitted and chopped dates
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup water
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup bourbon
- 3 1/4 cups flour, sifted
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter (3 sticks), softened and divided
- 2/3 cup white sugar
- 3 XL eggs, room temp
- 1 cup toffee chips
Sauce
- 1 1/4 cups brown sugar
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 2 tablespoon bourbon
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Additional Items
- 1 cup rough chopped pecans (toasted)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F, rack in the middle—grease and flour 12 cup+ Bundt Pan. Place the dates in a medium-sized glass bowl.
- In a medium saucepan, bring water, brown sugar, and bourbon to a boil. Boil 2 minutes. Remove from heat and pour over the dates. Stir in the baking soda. Set aside for 5 minutes.
- In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together 1 cup butter (2 sticks) and sugar until fluffy. ~6-8 minutes. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stop the mixer, add 1/2 of the flour mixture, and beat until just combined. Add date bourbon mixture; mix until just combined. Add the remaining 1/2 of the flour mixture and toffee chips; stir until just combined.
- Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake 45 – 50 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for 10-15 minutes. Place a plate over the bundt pan and, in one swift motion, flip the pan over to remove the cake and cool on a cooling rack. Allow to cool completely.
- While the cake is cooling in a medium saucepan over medium heat, bring brown sugar, vanilla extract, whipping cream, bourbon, and the remaining stick of butter (1/2 cup) to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes, reduce the heat, and simmer 15 minutes or until thickened. When ready to serve, drizzle 1/2 of the bourbon sauce over the cake, reserving the other 1/2. Sprinkle toasted pecans over the top of the cake.
- Spoon reserved sauce over cake slices.
Notes
For this you need a larger bundt pan.
I have this one and LOVE it! 12 cup+ Bundt Pan
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