TV culinary queen Nigella Lawson has divulged her secrets to creating a heavenly sticky toffee pudding ... In the meantime, start preparing the sauce. In a heavy-based saucepan, melt the butter ...

Toffee and caramel are very similar confections with a few notable differences, both in how they're made and how they're used. Here's a comparison of the two.

Store the sauce in the fridge until ready to use. Add the toffee sauce to plain yoghurt or pour generously over sponge pudding with ice cream. Put the empty vanilla pod halves in a pot of sugar to ...

The sauce can be made up to 3 days ahead, cover and store in the fridge. Traditionally sticky toffee pudding would contain dates, but as they need to be soaked and blended they aren’t included ...

"My all-time favourite dessert has to be sticky ... toffee pudding," she says. "If it's on the menu, I'll always make room. A soft, lightly spiced sponge studded with dates and enough warm toffee ...

The popular publication gushingly described the mixture of sponge, chopped dates and toffee sauce as "the sexiest English creation since [actor] Colin Firth". Unsurprisingly, Tracy's Sticky Toffee ...

When the sauce looks golden, stir in the remaining cream and half of the hazelnuts. Turn out the cooked sponge onto a serving dish. Pour over the hazelnut toffee sauce and sprinkle the remaining ...

Nigella Lawson pours black treacle sauce over her delightful sponge. Taken from Nigella: At My Table recipe book, the sticky toffee pudding only takes less than half an hour to prepare ...

(It’s a good idea to have a kettle of boiling water ready.) 6. TOFFEE SAUCE Combine the water and sugar in a medium saucepan. Stir over low heat, without boiling, until sugar dissolves.

is a classic English dessert consisting of a moist sponge cake made with dried dates and covered with a sticky toffee sauce.

While you can easily pick up a sticky toffee pudding from your local supermarket ... To serve, pour half the sauce over the pudding in the baking dish. Serve with cream or ice cream.

Directions Make the cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 9-inch round or a 9-by-13-inch rectangular cake pan. In a food processor, combine dates, ¼ cup boiling water and vanilla ...