Sticky Toffee Pudding or Bread and Butter Pudding?

[KinderEggg]

I can’t decide what to make some guests next week.
Which one would you prefer?

Sticky toffee, only because most B&B comes with raisins or sultanas 🤢

Yes, very well acquainted with the difference.

Can’t eat either. B&BP is actually worse IMO. Higher sliminess factor.

I prefer bread and butter pudding but I think sticky toffee has wider appeal

So just a raisin sandwich then? 😃

Bread and butter

Sticky toffee!

A bit of both, please. And ice cream with the B&B pudding.

sticky toffee with a jug of hot toffee sauce and ice-cream

Definitely the Stiffy Cocky pudding as it is known in our house!

Sticky toffee all the way

Bread and butter made with brioche or panettone spread with marmalade. Served with cream.

I do like sticky toffee but it’s been done to death.

Bread and butter pudding made with brioche and Baileys. Delicious

Both are lovely. Bread and butter made with brioche and sultanas is my favourite though.

Sticky toffee definitely.

Sticky toffee

With cream or ice cream - not custard

I love both, but prefer B&B. Though got to be cream not custard

@HereForTheFreeLunch yes, it pretty much was just a gloopy raisin sandwich 😄

Which is why I've only ever had it once 😂

All the BBP haters -- do any of you not eat crême caramel or crême brûlée? Because a good, home-made BBP recipe is basically the same but with a crispy, sweet topping of buttered bread/brioche/hot cross buns toasted to a golden brown in the oven.
The egg custard should be set, but not stodgy or slimy. Or wet.

Sultanas are better than raisins or currants they are softer and don't burn as easily but can easily be left out if you don't like them. (I soak them in little PX sherry beforehand. Or rum. )

No, eggy puddings are vile.

@KinderEggg

This recipe by Simon Hopkinson for sticky toffee pudding is absolutely fantastic, as well as easy to make.

It's now demanded by my family for Christmas dessert. I serve it with cream and also vanilla ice-cream.

Siobhan nope, wouldn't touch either of those either. Custard based puddings (and Custard on puddings) are given a big swerve here.

The John Tovey recipe for STP is delicious , easy to freeze too.
I have four of the Lakeland metal pudding basins so usually half the recipe in these and the other ha;f in foil basins to freeze

Dares are soaked in Camp Coffee flavoured liquid , the Simon Hopkinson one uses tea.

When Delia Smith did STP she out pecans and sauce over then grilled (but you need to watch like a hawk). I put some pecans in half the sauce , the rest plain.

sticky toffee

The recipe I have doesn't have that bit in about using a teabag! So I've never used one. Just soaked the dates in boiling water.

No way would I eat those milky jelly wobbly puddings either. I tried BBP made with hot cross buns and it was still gross. Brioche/bread/buns are meant to be dry, not soggy. Horrible.