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Sticky Date & Cacao Pudding

Name: Sticky Date & Cacao Pudding
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Modern Australian
Ingredients: 260 g pitted Medjool dates, roughly chopped; 300 ml boiling water; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 190 g wholemeal spelt flour; 45 g unsweetened cacao powder; 1 tsp baking powder; 180 ml unsweetened oat milk; 60 ml extra virgin olive oil; 120 g pitted Medjool dates; 220 ml boiling water; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 pinch fine sea salt

A dark, soft date pudding with bitter cacao and a glossy date sauce that soaks into every rough edge. Comforting without relying on vegan butter substitutes.

Prep15 mins

Cook35 mins

Serves6

DifficultyEasy

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Rustic dark cacao pudding with an uneven date sauce and rough spooned crumb — **TooGut pick**Flexible, practical, genuinely delicious.

Dates bring sweetness and moisture at the same time. Blending only the sauce and leaving some chopped dates in the batter keeps the pudding recognisably homemade instead of uniformly mousse-like.

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What you’ll need

Ingredients

Serves6

Pudding

260 gpitted Medjool dates, roughly chopped
300 mlboiling water
1 tspbicarbonate of soda
190 gwholemeal spelt flour
45 gunsweetened cacao powder
1 tspbaking powder
180 mlunsweetened oat milk
60 mlextra virgin olive oil

Date sauce

120 gpitted Medjool dates
220 mlboiling water
1 tspvanilla extract
1 pinchfine sea salt

One step at a time

Let’s cook.

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Soften the dates

Heat the oven to 180°C. Cover chopped pudding dates with boiling water, stir in bicarbonate of soda and leave for 10 minutes.

Keep some pieces

Mash the date mixture roughly with a fork. Whisk in oat milk and oil, leaving visible date fragments.

Fold the batter

Combine flour, cacao, baking powder and salt. Fold in the wet mixture just until no dry flour remains. Scrape into a greased 20 cm dish.

Bake until tender

Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until the centre springs back but a skewer carries a few moist crumbs.

Blend and pour

Blend sauce dates, boiling water, vanilla and salt until glossy. Spoon warm sauce unevenly over rough portions of pudding.

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Nutrition snapshot

Energy1,720 kJ

Protein7 g

Carbohydrate69 g

Fibre9 g

Approximate only. Values change with brands, portions and selected swaps.

Set yourself up

Equipment

✓ 20 cm baking dish
✓ Mixing bowl
✓ Stick blender or upright blender