Gooey, spongy and sticky, this date pudding ... Make sauce. Combine all ingredients in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, until sauce comes to the boil. Reduce heat to medium-low.

Sticky toffee pudding is such a classic pub pud – it’s a bit naughty, but very satisfying, and Tom's treacley toffee sauce guarantees ... Mix and then fold in the date and rum mixture.

A room beautifully lit with dimmed lights and candles, a carafe of port or a bottle of sticky ... the pudding straight from the basin on to the serving dish and add lashings of caramel sauce ...

Add the eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla bean paste, molasses, applesauce, date ... toffee sauce for 10 minutes ...

Serving up to 12 people, Jamie Oliver's banana panettone pudding with sticky toffee sauce is the ... part of the recipe might be making the caramel sauce, which needs to be chestnut in colour.