Sticky Date Cake With Caramel Sauce
Sticky Date Cake With Caramel Sauce
Servings Prep Time
12slices 90minutes
Cook Time
45minutes
Servings Prep Time
12slices 90minutes
Cook Time
45minutes
Ingredients
Cake (ingredients for one cake only)
Caramel Frosting
Caramel Sauce
Toffee Shards
Cream Filling
Instructions
Cake (for one cake only)
  1. Pre-heat oven to 180°C (fan forced).
  2. Grease and line with baking paper two 20cm springform baking pans.
  3. In a saucepan add dates and water to the saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat (do not drain water from the saucepan).
  4. Add bicarb soda to the saucepan and and stir through. Set aside for 15 minutes to cool.
  5. In a small bowl whisk eggs with vanilla essence and set aside.
  6. In a separate bowl add sugar and butter and beat with electric mixer until pale and creamy.
  7. Add eggs & vanilla mixture and continue beating until light and fluffy.
  8. With a metal spoon, fold in the sifted flour and date mixture and mix until just combined.
  9. Pour mixture into the prepared pan.
  10. Bake for about 40 minutes or until skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
  11. Cool in pans for 15 minutes before turning out onto wire racks to cool completely.
Caramel Sauce
  1. Stir butter and sugar in a saucepan over low heat until sugar dissolves
  2. Stir in cream and bring to boil.
  3. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 3-4 minutes or until sauce thickens slightly.
  4. Cool to room temperature and place in refrigerator for 30 minutes to chill.
Caramel Frosting
  1. In a large bowl add butter and beat with electric mixer until pale and creamy.
  2. Add icing sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy.
  3. Beat in 1/3 cup caramel sauce and mix until just combined.
  4. Reserve approx. one quarter of the frosting to use for piping onto the top of the cake (using a 1cm fluted nozzle).
Toffee Shards
  1. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
  2. Sprinkle pecan nuts over the baking paper.
  3. Combine sugar, water & vinegar in a non-stick saucepan over medium heat.
  4. Stir until sugar dissolves and bring to a boil.
  5. Reduce heat slightly and continue to boil for 10 minutes without stirring.
  6. Pour over pecan nuts on prepared tray and set aside to cool and set.
  7. Once set, break three quarters into shards. Crush remaining toffee into small granules.
Cream Filling
  1. In a large bowl, using electric beaters, mix cream and vanilla essence until peaks start to form.
  2. Add caster sugar, 1 tbsp at a time, to the mixture and beat well after each addition.
  3. Continue beating until stiff peaks form.
Cake assembly
  1. Using a serrated knife cut each cake in half horizontally.
  2. Place one cake base onto a plate and cover with approx one third of the remaining caramel frosting (after reserving one quarter for piping), leaving a space in the centre.
  3. Fill space with a third of the cream filling.
  4. Drizzle with caramel sauce. Also allow some sauce to drip down the side of the layer.
  5. Repeat layering until top layer is put on cake.
  6. Finish the top of the cake with the piped frosting. Decorate to you preference.
  7. Top with the toffee shards, drizzle with remaining caramel sauce and allow some to run down the sides of the cake. Finally sprinkle with crushed toffee granules.
Recipe Notes

There should be caramel sauce remaining after the cake has been finished.  This can then be used to serve with each slice of cake.

The ingredients and instructions for the cake component of this recipe are for one cake only.  Two cakes are required for this recipe.  You can simply double the quantities and then pour half the mixture into each of the 2 prepared baking pans.  I mix each cake separately as I think it is a little easier to do, particularly when you are folding ingredients together.

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