Presently in the oven - will upload pic when sauce is made and ready to serve. I realise that there are many versions of butterscotch type desserts on the forum so here is another!!!!!!! I used 3 tabsp (90g) syrup instead of dates and reduced the water. A loose adaptation of the original recipe -
Good Taste Magazine – 1997 - p15 Sticky toffee pudding with butterscotch sauce Ingredients (serves 6 -8)
• 250mls (1 cup) water – reduce water if using syrup (100ml)
• 200g fresh dates, pitted, chopped – can replace dates with 3 tabsp (90g) syrup
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 60g butter or margarine, softened
• 170g sugar (I used raw)
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 2 eggs
• 230g SR flour
• Thick cream (optional), to serve
Butterscotch sauce • 300mls thickened cream
• 300g brown sugar
• 125g chopped butter
1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a deep cake pan or casserole dish. (Line the base of the pan with non-stick baking paper –
(I did not do this).
2. Combine boiling water and syrup in TMX –
mix speed 3 - 30 sec. Add bicarb –
mix 10 sec speed 3.3. If using dates follow
EDC sticky date recipe p 157. Set aside to cool. If using dates - place in TMX chop 8 secs - speed 4. Add water and cook 5mins 100deg speed 1 - then mix 10 secs speed 4. Add bicarb and stir 3 secs, speed 2.
5. Set aside to cool in separate bowl. Clean and dry bowl.
6. Add sugar pulverize
20 secs speed 9.
Insert butterfly. 7. Add chopped butter and vanilla,
mix 20 sec speed 4. Mix further
1min 30 sec - speed 4 - light and creamy.
8. Add eggs one at a time and continue
same speed.
Remove butterfly.
9. Add flour and syrup mixture
(or date mixture) mixing
10 sec speed 5. Pour mixture into the prepared pan and
bake 45 minutes or until golden. Stand in the pan for 5 minutes then turn onto a wire rack to cool.
Butterscotch sauce - Place all ingredients into TMX –
cook 5 mins 80⁰ speed 4 or longer if a thicker consistency is preferred.
Serve with warmed butterscotch sauce accompanied by thick cream or icecream. Enjoy!!!!!!!
Oct 30 2011 -
Save yourself some fiddling about if you wish to try this dessert - made it tonight and was short on time + both bowls were wet/dirty. After melting butter, syrup and bicarb step. Put everything in bowl including castor sugar or raw whatever your heart desires and mix speed 6 - 1 min. 
