Reheating The Sticky Toffee Pudding | Ask Nigella.com (2024)

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Reheat sauce gently in a saucepan. The sponge can be reheated on low power in a microwave for 1-2 minutes according to the manufacturer's instructions. MAKE AHEAD/STORE: Refrigerate leftovers as soon as possible, covered tightly with cling film, for up to 5 days.

To reheat, pour sauce into saucepan and simmer over low heat just until heated through. Pudding can be made up to 3 days ahead of time. Cool completely from oven and tightly wrap with plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator. To reheat, uncover and heat in an oven until just warmed.

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However, it is possible to bake the sponge up to one hour in advance, spoon some sauce over the top and then leave it to stand in a warm place for up to one hour before serving. You may need to warm the extra sauce gently again before serving with the sponge.

If you have leftovers then these can be stored, covered, in the fridge for up to 5 days. Store the sauce and sponge separately. You could freeze leftover portions of the pudding in an airtight container for up to 1 month.

Cooking instructions: Microwave

Microwave from chilled but can also be oven heated. If freezing at home, defrost thoroughly before heating.

Sticky toffee pudding, known as sticky date pudding in Australia and New Zealand, is a British dessert consisting of a moist sponge cake made with finely chopped dates (optional), covered in a toffee sauce and often served with a vanilla custard or vanilla ice-cream.

Just defrost the frozen puddings and heat as per the recipe. I'd keep them covered and defrost overnight. You can you either light or dark brown sugar but the sauce in the photo was most likely made with light brown sugar.

Yummy Sticky toffee pudding in toffee sauce. Ideal for camping, climbing, hiking, yachting, fishing and many more outdoor activities. Serving Instructions: Can be eaten cold but heating brings out the best flavours.

This traditional English sticky toffee pudding has the texture of a sponge-like cake that is super moist and full of sweet dates. The cake batter is baked on top of toffee sauce, then even more toffee sauce is poured on top. Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Keep refrigerated below 5°C. Once opened, keep refrigerated and consume within 24 hours and by date shown. Not suitable for freezing. All appliances vary, the following are guidelines only.

How to cook microwave sticky toffee pudding without microwave? ›

The closest you could probably come is steaming. Put your pudding in a ramekin and put that in a pan of water in the oven. I'd do 350 degrees and hope for the best. You would need to watch it closely but I think steaming would be closest in texture.

Remove pudding from the bowl and placing onto a microwave safe plate. Reduce the microwave power level to 40-50% (400-500 watts) and heat pudding for 10-15 minutes. Check how hot it is by pushing a metal skewer or knife into the centre, hold it for 5 seconds, then pull it out. The tip it should be hot to the touch.

Cooking Instructions

Remove outer packaging and foil. Place ramekin on a microwaveable plate and heat for 30 seconds, no longer. Then leave to rest for an additional minute before consuming.Do not bake in an oven.

Wrap in foil and reheat at 300ºF (150ºC) for an hour or until hot. To reheat on the stovetop, remove wrappings and place the pudding in the original mould. Cover tightly. Set pudding mould on a trivet in a large saucepan and steam 3/4 - 1 hour or until hot.

If you melt too much that's ok, it will harden again and you can just microwave it again another time for another use.