Sticky Toffee Scan Bran Pudding

Slimming Eats Recipe

Serves 9

Green – 3.5 syns per slice

Extra Easy – 3.5 syns per slice

Original – 3.5 syns per slice

Ingredients

• 6 Scan Bran (6 syns)
• 3 eggs
• 50g of pitted dates (7 syns)
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract
• 1 tsp of baking powder (0.5 syns)
• 4 teaspoons of brown sugar (3 syns)
• Pam or Frylight spray

for the toffee sauce

• 2 tablespoons of golden syrup (6 syns)
• 1 tablespoon of low fat spread (2.5 syns)
• 100ml of so delicious coconut milk (or use Kara coconut milk) (3.5 syns)

Method

Preheat oven to 200c or 400f

Soak the scan bran in some boiling hot water to soften, drain and mash with a fork. Mix in the baking powder.

Soak the pitted dates for a few mins in boiling hot water to soften, then, drain,  finely chop and mix with the vanilla extract. Add this to the scan bran and mix well to combine.

Separate the yolks from the whites of the eggs, and whisk the yolks with the sugar, add this into the scan bran.

Whisk the egg whites until it forms soft peaks and then fold this in, until all ingredients are combined.

Pour into a square 8in brownie dish  and bake in the oven for approx 30 mins, until a skewer entired into the centre comes out clean.

Score your cake into 9 equal sized squares and pierce all over with a skewer.

for the toffee sauce

Add the butter to a small saucepan and heat until melted, then add the golden syrup and coconut milk and heat stirring continously until it goes a light caramel colour. Add in approx 3 tablespoons of water and continue to heat until it just starts to thicken.

Pour the sauce all over the cake and serve a slice with some quark or light cream (for a few extra syns)

The recipe above has been calculated for Slimming World, however for those of you following the Weight Watchers plan or another calorie controlled type diet. Below is the approx nutritional information: