The Fabulous Baker Brothers

The Fabulous Baker Brothers cooked this steamed pudding with a sticky toffee sauce

Serves 6

• 100g walnuts, broken up
• 150g dates, roughly chopped
• 200g self-raising flour
• 75g suet
• 1 heaped tbsp light soft brown sugar
• 2 tbsp black treacle
• 1 egg
• 200ml milk
• Zest of 1 lemon

For the toffee sauce

• 2 tbsp double cream
• 1 tbsp black treacle
• 175g butter
• 2 tbsp light soft brown sugar
• ½ tsp lemon zest
• Good glug of whisky

1. Put the walnuts into a bowl with the dates, self-raising flour, suet, sugar, treacle, egg, milk and lemon zest. Mix it all together then pour into a 1½ pint buttered pudding basin.

2. Put a greaseproof paper disk on top and wrap the whole thing in cling film. Put an upturned saucer into the bottom of a big pan, put the pudding on top and fill to half way with boiling water. Cover and heat the water until simmering, then allow to simmer and steam gently for 2 hours.

3. Place all the ingredients for the sauce in a saucepan and heat gently until everything has melted together.

4. Turn the steamed pudding out onto a serving plate and pour over the hot sauce to serve.