Ingreadient :

• 50g butter
• 175g demerara sugar
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp black treacle
• 200g self raising flour
• 200f pitted dates
• 290ml boiling water
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 100g raisins soaked in rum
• 100ml double cream
• 50g butter
• 50g muscavado sugar
• 2 tbsp black treacle
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• 50 ml rum
• Clotted Cream

Direction :

1. Preheat the oven to 200c.
2. Grease and line a square 20cm x20cm tin.
3. Pour the boiling water over the dates, leave to sit for 5 minutes then blitz until smooth and pour into a bowl.
4. Beat together the butter and sugar until pale and fold in the syrup, eggs, treacle, flour and vanilla. Stir the bicarb into the dates then mix into the batter. Pour into the tin and bake for 30 minutes. To make the sauce, put all the ingredients into a pan, bring to the boil then take off the heat.
5. To serve, cut a square of cake, spoon over the sauce and top with a banana and a dollop of clotted cream.