Instant Pot Steamed Date Pudding is a decadent and delicious dessert that is served warm with a drizzle of caramel sauce. This is a great dessert to make ahead of time.
For my final BM post for the year, I made a sweet treat. Keeping with the theme of the week, here’s a steamed date pudding that is absolutely decadent and delicious. I steamed the pudding in Instant pot but it can also be baked in the oven like a cake.
Steamed Desserts:
I wanted to make steamed pudding for this week. But I didn’t have a recipe or didn’t really know what steamed pudding was. Heard about it on one of the British cooking shows. But I thought pudding was a dairy based dessert like this one or this bread pudding.
Pudding in UK:
In US it means a dairy based dish usually sweet like a custard or a mousse. Apparently in the UK, the word pudding refers to dessert course in general. So it could be a cake, rice pudding etc etc.
Ingredients for Steamed Date Pudding:
I made this steamed date pudding yesterday for Christmas. It has a nice, soft cakey consistency. I followed the recipe from here. I made the recipe eggless by using egg replacer powder instead of an egg. Flaxseed egg would also work perfectly in this recipe.
The main ingredient in this instant pot steamed date pudding are the dates. They need to be deseeded and finely chopped. All the other ingredients are regular cake ingredients - flour, baking powder, milk, butter and spices.
Ground cinnamon and allspice make the festive smell and taste perfectly festive. Make this during the holiday season, I am sure your family and friends will enjoy it as much as our family did.
Steamed Date Pudding
Ingredients
- ½ cup Dates, deseeded and finely chopped
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ⅓ cup Hot Water
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 3 tbsp unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp milk
- ⅔ cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp Ground Cinnamon
- ¼ tsp Ground All spice
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp Egg replacer powder whisked with 3tbsp water
Instructions
- Lightly grease 4 4oz. ramekins with cooking spray.
- In a small bowl, combine dates, baking soda, hot water and maple syrup. Mix and set aside,
- In a microwave safe bowl, melt butter along with the milk.
- In a medium size mixing bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, spices and salt. Add the egg replacer mixture and mix well.
- Stir in the dates and the butter mixture.
- Divide the batter evenly between the ramekins. Cover each ramekin with a greased aluminum foil. Place them on a rack in the Instant Pot.
- Pour enough hot water to cover the ramekins up to halfway. Cover and set to 'Steam' and cook for 25 minutes.
- Let the pressure release naturally. Carefully remove and serve warm with generous drizzle of caramel sauce. ENJOY!!
Lets check out what my fellow marathoners have cooked today for BM# 95.
Priya Suresh
Woww, how pretty and catchy this date pudding looks. And this instant pot version sounds like a child play. Lovely set up there and brings the festive mood to the clicks.
Suma Gandlur
This date pudding sounds wonderful and that too with out eggs. Fabulous presentation.
harini
Beautiful presentation of this fabulous pudding. Was wondering if flax egg would work here instead of the egg replacer powder.
Swati
The pudding looks so delicious and love your pics!! Can we use flax or chia gel in place of egg replacer?
Gayathri Kumar
That is such a sinful looking dates pudding Pavani. Absolutely yum with the sauce drizzled on top.
Srividhya Gopalakrishnan
Recently started to experiment with baking in Instant Pot. Thanks for this recipe, I would love to try. As always beautiful presentation Pavani.
Code2cook
amazing this steamed date pudding made in instant pot looking absolutely delicious and lip-smacking dessert. Bookmarking this to make. looking so tempting and mouthwatering.
Chef Mireille
I am yet to try an instant pot but this looks like such a delicious treat
Veena Krishnakumar
This instant pot pudding looks so good. Lovely presentation
Priya
The whole setup looks warm pavani! The pudding looks delish, you guys are rocking with your IP's!
Sowmya
Looks luscious!
Sandhya Ramakrishnan
This looks amazing Pavani! I have tons of dates from our Dubai trip and this will be the perfect recipe to make with it. So rich and love the texture of it.
Leslie
I love the flavors used in this. It's the perfect combination for a Holiday treat. Your pudding looks perfectly moist as well!