Sticky Date Pudding
A sticky date pudding is a favorite Australian pudding, especially in Southern climates in the winter months. Your family and friends will love you forever if you make them the following recipe.
Ingredients
Sauce
- 2 cups (480 ml) brown sugar
- 1 cup (240 ml) water
Cake
- 1 cup (240 ml) pitted dates
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 cups (480 ml) plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 4 eggs, at room temperature
- 1½ cups (360 ml) castor sugar
- 1 cup (240 ml) vegetable oil
- 2 tsp of vanilla essence
Serving
- 500 ml cream
Steps
Sauce
- Place brown sugar and water in the top of a double boiler.
- Stir over simmering heat until all brown sugar dissolves.
- Remove from heat. Cool.
Cake
- Chop dates roughly. Place in a saucepan. Add sodium bicarbonate and just enough water to cover.
- Bring to a boil. Simmer 1 minute. Remove from heat when the froth reaches the top of the saucepan.
- Cool.
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and mixed spice together twice.
- Beat eggs lightly. Add castor sugar. Whip as for a sponge until really light and fluffy.
- Fold in oil and vanilla essence. Do not overmix; the air is lost.
- Fold in the sifted flour mixture. Fold in the cooled date mixture.
- Pour into the prepared tin. Bake at 180°C about 80–90 minutes, not too high in the oven or the top burns. Reduce time and temperature slightly for a fan-forced oven.
- Test with a skewer until it comes out dry. Remove from oven. Leave the pudding in the tin.
Serving
- Poke many holes through the hot pudding with a skewer.
- Pour about 1 cup caramel mixture onto the hot pudding to soak into the holes.
- Slice. Serve immediately with cream or ice cream.
Source. Adapted from “Cookbook:Sticky Date Pudding” by Wikibooks contributors, revision of 2025-10-26, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Changes. Steps rewritten into short commands. Introduction shortened. Wiki formatting removed. This adapted recipe is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.






