STICKY toffee pudding is the nation’s favourite dessert – beating chocolate eclairs and apple crumble.
It was the top sweet treat for 47 per cent of people in a recent poll by restaurant booking website TheFork.
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The gooey go-to, a hit since the Seventies, is a moist sponge featuring finely chopped dates covered in a toffee sauce.
Make it yourself and it will take at least an hour and a half — but there are plenty of delicious ones you can buy in stores and microwave at home in minutes.
Writer and mum-of-three Lynsey Hope gives her verdicts on some and rates each out of ten.
- All calories and sugar are per individual pudding except Aldi.
Tesco 2 Sticky Toffee Puddings £2.10 — 44.4g sugar, 362 calories
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LOOKED the most impressive. Sauce had a lovely shiny glaze and pud was a nice dome shape – the biggest we tried.
Delicious. I ranked it top for taste.
Very sweet, with 20g more sugar per pud than the Lidl one. If you are watching your weight it might not be for you but if you want a treat, this is top notch.
RATING: 9/10
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Waitrose 2 Sticky Toffee Puddings £1.50 — 36.9g sugar, 412 calories
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GREAT value, beaten only in price by Lidl and £1 cheaper than rival M&S.
Sweet without being too sickly. I liked them. A good amount of toffee sauce and very easy to make – you can microwave these in less than a minute.
While there is still a hefty amount of sugar, it is less than that in most of the others.
RATING: 9/10
M&S 2 Sticky Toffee Puddings £2.50 — 43.4g sugar, 431 calories
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A BUTTERY sponge with chopped dates, drenched in a sticky muscovado toffee sauce.
Much darker in colour than the others and while delicious, it looked more like a chocolate pudding.
It was quite sweet and the most expensive in our test. It was not a traditional recipe but yummy all the same.
RATING: 7/10
Morrisons 2 Sticky Toffee Puddings, £2 — 48.5g sugar, 383 calories
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I ENJOYED these. The sponge was light, fluffy and buttery – though I wouldn’t have minded a bit more of the yummy creamy toffee sauce.
Good value. Had a slightly liquorice aftertaste, which was unusual.
Contain the most sugar out of any we tried – equivalent to 12 teaspoons – but they’re worth a few gym visits to work that off!
RATING: 8/10
Lidl Milbona Desserts 2 Sticky Toffee Sponge Puddings, £1.39 —23.2g sugar, 384 calories
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SORRY to say, I wasn’t impressed. These had a slightly rubbery texture which I didn’t like.
They looked smaller than the others and dropped a bit once served.
Nothing wrong with them exactly, but they weren’t my favourite and while a great price, I wouldn’t rush back. I’d happily stump up the extra 11p for the Waitrose puds.”
RATING: 3/10
Aldi Specially Selected Sticky Toffee Pudding (Serves 4); £2.49 —42.6g sugar, 378 calories (per quarter of pud)
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COMES as a giant cake intended for four to share rather than individual pots like most others. Initially looked very sauce heavy.
A lovely flavour, a soft moist sponge and rich, gooey sauce.
The pud was easily big enough for four was a bargain. My favourite.
RATING: 10/10
Asda 2 Sticky Toffee Sponge Puddings, £1.75 — 34g sugar, 339 calories
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THIS one was rather mushy and the sauce was quite dark and bitter compared to the others I tested.
But on the plus side, the pudding had just the right amount of sweetness and the sponge had a lovely golden appearance.
Very edible and not bad value for money either.
RATING: 6/10
