Sheet-pan sticky toffee pudding cake
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Loosely adapted from Nigella Lawson's <a href="https://www.nigella.com/recipes/easy-sticky-toffee-pudding">Sticky Toffee Pudding</a> dessert from her cookbook, <em>Nigella Bites</em>, this sheet-pan version is one of my favorite things to make for guests during the colder months. I love this cake because it's one of those things I'm able to throw together when it seems I have nothing in my pantry and fridge. All it needs are the usual suspects, things like brown sugar, butter, flour, eggs, and milk—plus chopped dates. I often make this without the dates, but they're the ingredient that gives the dessert its signature flavor and squidge. <br /> <br />The important thing is to trust in Nigella's technique (it's a quirky one!): Once you spread the very simple batter out onto the sheet pan, you dot the cake with brown sugar, blobs of butter, and *pour* hot water (yes, hot water) all over the top. As this water-filled pan bakes in the oven, the liquid mixes with the butter and sugar and amalgamates into a luscious sauce. The sauce also inverts with the cake, so the batter bakes up into a tender cake on top, while sticky toffee ends up on bottom. It's a very satisfying thing to watch happen, but requires a little faith.
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