The Best Sticky Toffee, Fig & Walnut Pudding

This sticky toffee pudding with walnuts, figs, and warm toffee sauce is rich, comforting and completely irresistible. It might even be the best one I have made. Save it for your next dinner with friends or family, because it is the kind of dessert that always disappears fast.

It’s a slight riff on a classic sticky toffee pudding made with dates so you could easily swap out the dried figs if you can’t get hold of them, but I loved how they added a soft flavour element as well as a little texture.

• 200 grams dried figs chopped
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 100 grams salted butter
• 200 grams soft or light brown sugar muscovado or Demerara if you can
• 4 free-range large eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 350 grams self-raising flour
• 100 grams walnuts chopped

• 350 grams light soft brown sugar
• 150 grams salted butter
• 400 ml cream
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 100 grams toasted walnuts chopped
• 3-4 Tbsp Molasses optional to darken the sauce