Sticky Date Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce

Method

Sticky Date Pudding method:

1. Chop the dried dates and soak in the boiling water to soften, give them a squash to make it a bit jam like with chunks of dates too. Add the vanilla extract here.
2. Cream the butter and sugar till smooth. (Mix at home and put in a zip lock bag, soften at camp to use)
3. Add eggs to the butter, sugar and mix. This will not come together fully due to the fat in the butter but don’t stress it all works out when adding the flour.
4. Add the bi-carb to the dates and poor this into the butter, sugar and eggs and mix. Add the flour and give a final mix.
5. Pour cake batter into a lined spring form cake tin.
6. Place in a camp oven on a trivet.

Tip: Set an alarm for every 10 minutes, check the cake and make sure its not browning too much, if so take a few coals away of not replace with fresh ones and rotate the oven 180 degrees to the fire till cooked. It will take about 45-1hr to cook if you are balancing the heat evenly. When you put a knife into the centre of the cake, and it comes out clean and not a wet batter its cooked. There is no time frame with a fire. Keep the 10-minute cycles and rotation up till cooked.

Butterscotch Sauce method

1. Melt the butter
2. Add the sugar into the butter and mix till smooth and bubbling slightly
3. Add the pouring cream and keep stirring till it comes to a simmer. Once coating the back of a spoon and glossy take it off and set aside ready for lashings on a slice of cake. Then serve up with a spoon of double cream or vanilla ice cream and enjoy!

Tip: To fully enjoy cooking on the campsite like this, make sure you're set with a Norweld ute canopy nearby - built to support every adventure!

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