sticky date pudding

Ingredients

• 14 pitted medjool dates, 12 to soak and 2 to chop into chunks and fold through the cake dough
• 2/3 cup of boiling hot water
• 1 tsp bicarb soda
• 2 Tbsp chia seeds
• 4 Tbsp rice or maple syrups
• 3 eggs
• 140g melted butter
• 1 tsp vanilla bean powder
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 90g buckwheat flour
• 40g coconut flour (You could do 80g coconut flour and omit the buckwheat if you are strict paleo. It will be a lot more moist in texture. no ‘fluff’ but still very yummy)
• 3 Tbsp rice or maple syrup
• 1 Tbsp blackstrap molasses (if you have it, it adds a delicious richness to the sauce . otherwise, just increase your rice / maple to 4 tbsp)
• 160ml coconut cream
• 100g salted butter