smells like: brown sugar, salted butter, syrupy dates, cake

There’s a dessert that reigns supreme in England called sticky toffee pudding. This pub-menu classic is a soft date sponge served warm, with enough toffee sauce to soak right through the cake. I had my first bite this past summer at The Fat Badger in York, and let’s just say my taste buds were changed forever. Even Wade, who barely likes dessert, went wide-eyed, and we polished it off in about two minutes.

Sticky Toffee Tidings is my little Anglophile heart’s love letter in wax to that first spoonful. Think warm cake studded with syrupy dates and a generous pour of brown sugar and salted butter toffee. Light it after Christmas dinner, when everyone’s still lingering at the table hoping there’s something sweet to come.

And if we ever make it back to The Fat Badger, Wade is getting his own. Your girl is not sharing again. ;)

Tidings of sticky toffee and joy, toffee and joy, oh tidings of toffee and joy!