BBQ date cake with smoky caramel sauce.

BBQ Date Cake with Smoked Caramel Sauce

Date with smoky caramel cake baked in the Charlie Oven
Mat Blak Charlie Oven Masterclass

Prep time

15 mins

Cook time

35 mins

Servings

15 pers

Category

Desert

Origin

United Kingdom

Ingredients

Smoked Caramel Sauce

  • 700ml Double Cream
  • 300g Brown Sugar
  • 150g Unsalted Butter
  • 1 Pint Maldon Salt per Pudding
  • 3 pieces White-Hot Charcoal

Date Cake

  • 300g Dates, Stoned and Finely Chopped
  • 150g Pecans, Finely Chopped
  • 150ml Boiling Water
  • 100g Unsalted Butter, Softened
  • 320g Brown Sugar
  • 2 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

Directions

Smoked Caramel Sauce

Step 1

Pour the cream into a thick bottomed metal container. 

Step 2

With a pair of steel tongs carefully remove charcoal and submerge into double cream.

Step 3

Over a medium heat in another sauce pan melt the butter and brown sugar while stirring constantly to ensure it doesn’t split.


Step 4

Strain the double cream into the sugar mixture and whisk.


Step 5

Add caramel sauce back to the heat and cook until desired thickness is required (around 10 mins).


Date Cake

Step 1

Grease a pan or baking dish with butter.

Step 2

Ensure the BBQ is heated to 180˚C.

Step 3

Finely chop the dates then soak in 150ml boiling water.

Step 4

Mix together the butter and brown sugar and vanilla. 

Step 5

Beat in the eggs one at a time.

Step 6

Fold in the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Stir in the chopped pecans and the dates along with the water they've been soaking in. Combine well. 


Step 7

Fill the pan or baking dish with the pudding batter to within 2cm of the top of dish.

Step 8

Bake in your Charlie Oven for 30-35 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.

Step 9

Gently reheat the caramel sauce in your Charlie Oven and pour it over the puddings. 

Step 10

Add a sprinkling of whole pecans and a good spoon of ice cream.


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