Sticky Toffee Pudding - Low Carb Recipe (2024)

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This keto friendly Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe features a tender, moist almond flour cake smothered in a rich sugar free toffee sauce. A heavenly low carb dessert with less than 7g total carbs per serving. And you can bake it right in your Instant Pot!

Oh looky, what do we have here? Would you believe me if I told you it’s a keto version of Sticky Toffee Pudding? For those of you familiar with your classic British desserts, prepare to have your minds blown by this deliciousness!

My own mind was blown. This sticky toffee pudding recipe may have just shot to the top of my favorite holiday desserts list. An incredibly moist, tender cake with a thick rich toffee sauce. And I cooked it in my Instant Pot! But don’t worry, I am including instructions for the oven as well.

Never heard of sticky toffee pudding? I don’t care where you are from or what your traditions were growing up, you need to make this recipe now. I don’t mean in a few minutes, I mean RIGHT NOW!

What is Sticky Toffee Pudding?

It’s not pudding of the sort that most Americans would recognize. True to the delightful way the Brits use language, pudding can refer to dessert in general. It can also refer to a custard or a steamed cake. And sticky toffee pudding falls into the later category, although it can be baked or steamed.

Like many people, I’ve always assumed it was of British origin. But according to a couple of sources, its origins may actually be Canadian. Whoop whoop, another amazing dessert from my homeland! However, it was made famous by a hotel in the Lake District in the 1970s.

I don’t remember when I first heard of this delectable English treat but I do know that I wandered around London on my honeymoon, desperate to find some. I figured it would be sold in every restaurant and cafe but it was surprisingly hard to find. I did finally manage to get my fix at a little pub and it was just as good as it sounds.

The conventional Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe takes dates to help sweeten it. A lot of dates.

Dates are shockingly carby, did you know that? A single Medjool date has 20g of carbs. A cup of them has about 110g. GAH! That’s a shocking amount of carbohydrates for something that is not much bigger than a walnut.

I just got a toothache writing that.

How To Make Keto Sticky Toffee Pudding

Date-Free: Obviously the dates had to go. I considered chopping up a single date to put into the mix but that would add over 2g of carbs per serving. So to get that same deep flavor, I used a little Yacon syrup, which only has about 12g per tablespoon. You don’t need to use this if you prefer not to.

I also added a little cocoa powder to deepen the color of the cake, but not so much that you can taste any chocolate flavor.

Steamed or Baked?When I was researching Sticky Toffee Pudding recipes, I found that most of them are baked. But it occurred to me that using an Instant Pot would give it that fantastically moist steamed texture.

If you don’t have an instant pot, you can also bake it in a water bath (instructions included in the recipe notes).

Twodifferent sweeteners:I know you want me to tell you that the toffee sauce can be made with whatever you have on hand. But it can’t. You need a sweetener like allulose or Bocha Sweet (or possibly xylitol) to make the sauce gooey. Swerve works perfectly in the cake itself but would recrystallize too much to be used alone in the sauce.

So the sauce takes both Swerve and allulose or Bocha Sweet. This combination of sweeteners is ideal for gooey rich sauces like caramel. I usually use Bocha Sweet in my sugar-free caramel sauce but this time I used allulose and it worked beautifully.

To deepen the color and make it more of a toffee sauce rather than caramel, I boiled it longer until it was a deep amber. It was truly a thing of beauty!

To serve the Sticky Toffee Pudding: This is an incredibly moist cake and it’s not easy to remove from the pan in one piece. You can cut it into wedges in the pan, but if you want to take it out intact, you must line the bottom with parchment paper. That way, you can flip it out onto a serving platter (the bottom will become the top of the cake).

Let the cake cool completely before trying to serve, so it holds together a little better. The toffee sauce is best served warm, and you can warm the individual slices of cake gently before serving.

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Sticky Toffee Pudding - Low Carb Recipe (6)

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Keto Sticky Toffee Pudding

This keto friendly Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe features a tender, moist almond flour cake smothered in a rich sugar free toffee sauce. A heavenly low carb dessert!

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Dessert

Keyword: instant pot cake, sticky toffee pudding

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 55 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 10 minutes minutes

Servings: 8 servings

Calories: 351kcal

Ingredients

Cake:

Toffee Sauce:

Instructions

Cake:

  • Grease a 7-inch ceramic souffle dish. If you want to take the pudding out of dish whole, line with a circle of parchment paper on the bottom and grease the paper as well.

  • In a small bowl, whisk together the Yacon syrup, hot water, and vanilla. Set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together the almond flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.

  • In a large bowl, beat the butter with the sweetener until lightened and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in the eggs until well combined, then beat in the almond flour mixture.

  • Add the Yacon/hot water mixture and beat until the batter is smooth. Pour into the prepared baking dish and spread to the edges. Smooth the top and cover tightly with aluminum foil.

  • Set the trivet into the Instant Pot and add 1 cup of water to the bottom. Carefully lower the baking pan onto the trivet and seal the lid. Make sure the vent is also sealed. Set to the cake setting (or Manual) for 45 minutes. (For Oven Baking Instructions, please see the Recipe Notes).

  • Let the pressure release naturally from the Instant Pot before removing the cake. Let the cake cool completely to firm up, then flip out onto a serving platter (the bottom will now be the top) or cut into pieces in the pan.

Toffee Sauce:

  • In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine the butter and the two sweeteners. Stir together as they melt and then bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium low and continue to cook about 5 minutes, until it's a deep amber. Keep your eye on it, as it can boil over or burn easily.

  • Add the cream and vanilla extract. The mixture will bubble vigorously; this is normal. Whisk until smooth and boil another 2 minutes. Let cool to lukewarm before serving over the cake.

Notes

How to make Sticky Toffee Pudding without an Instant Pot:

Preheat the oven to 350F. Proceed as directed and spread the batter in the prepared pan. Set the pan inside a larger baking dish and fill with enough hot water to about halfway up the sides of the inside dish.

Cover the whole thing lightly with foil and bake until set, about 40 minutes (keep your eye on it, it may take less or more time - this is a guesstimate on my part!). Remove the smaller dish from the water bath and let cool completely.

Nutrition Facts

Keto Sticky Toffee Pudding

Amount Per Serving (1 serving = ⅛ of cake)

Calories 351Calories from Fat 296

% Daily Value*

Fat 32.9g51%

Carbohydrates 6.2g2%

Fiber 2.4g10%

Protein 6.6g13%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Sticky Toffee Pudding - Low Carb Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How many carbs are in a sticky toffee pudding? ›

NUTRITION FACTS (amount per serving):
Total fat 26.13 g34%
Total Carbohydrate 42.49 g15%
Dietary fiber 3.39 g12%
Total Sugars 8.78 g18%
Protein 34.72 g69%
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What's the difference between sticky date pudding and sticky toffee pudding? ›

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.

Why can't you reheat sticky toffee pudding? ›

Unfortunately though these type of self-saucing puddings do not reheat very well as the sauce tends to thicken and be absorbed by the sponge as the pudding cools. So when you reheat the pudding it will have a sticky base but with very little sauce.

Is pudding high in carbs? ›

The carbohydrates in regular instant, ready-to-eat and dry mix pudding are high. Sugar free has lower carbohydrates than any of those varieties. However, be aware of certain flavors. Pistachio, butterscotch and banana are high in carbohydrates.

How many carbs are in homemade toffee? ›

Homemade Toffee (1 piece) contains 7.8g total carbs, 7.8g net carbs, 3.9g fat, 0.1g protein, and 67 calories.

Is it OK to freeze sticky toffee pudding? ›

FREEZING. If you don't want to eat the puddings all at once, freeze a few in an ovenproof dish with some of the sauce. Thaw for a few hours and reheat as in step 15.

How long can you keep sticky toffee pudding in the fridge? ›

For leftovers we recommend storing the sponge and sauce separately in the fridge for up to 5 days. Cover the sponge tightly with clingfilm (plastic wrap) and put the sauce in an airtight container.

Can you eat sticky toffee pudding out of date? ›

I would eat it, the amount of sugar that is in it would preserve it surely. Eat. Deffo. All sugar and fat.

Is figgy pudding the same as sticky toffee pudding? ›

Like the Christmas pudding and figgy puddings before it, the sticky toffee pudding is usually steamed for maximum moisture. Instead of figs, however, very finely chopped dates are added to the cake, which gets covered in a toffee sauce.

What pairs well with sticky toffee pudding? ›

Top pairings

One of the all-time favourite British desserts sticky toffee pudding is super-sweet so will overwhelm most wines you might think of pairing with it so what should you choose? Your best bet is a sweet fortified wine like tawny port, sherry or Madeira, a beer (believe it or not!) or a whisky liqueur.

What country is sticky toffee pudding from? ›

How many carbs are in sticky date pudding? ›

Full Nutritional Value
Serves/Pack 1180g QTY/ServeQTY/100g
PROTEIN4.6 g1.8 g
FAT, TOTAL46.7 g18.7 g
– SATURATED30.1 g12 g
CARBOHYDRATE, TOTAL101 g40.4 g
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How many calories are in cream sticky toffee pudding? ›

Typical Values
PER 100GPER BISCUIT
ENERGY (KCAL)49076
FAT (G)22.13.4
OF WHICH SATURATES (G)12.41.9
CARBOHYDRATE (G)67.610.5
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How many carbs are in Starbucks toffee nut syrup? ›

Starbucks Toffee Nut Flavoured Syrup (30 ml) contains 19g total carbs, 19g net carbs, 0g fat, 0g protein, and 80 calories.

How many calories are in a co op sticky toffee pudding? ›

Energy: 300 calories
Protein2.3g
Carbs43.1g
Fat12.8g

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