Sugar Rush: Sticky Date Pudding from The Sunburnt Cow

[Photograph: Robyn Lee]

If I lived in Australia, I'd want to eat sticky date pudding all the time. Alas, I don't, so I've only eaten it twice in my deprived life, the second time at The Sunburnt Cow in Alphabet City. The uber-moist, warm cake morsel acted as a sponge (and had a spongy texture) for the caramel sauce topping and doesn't taste of dates as much as the intense caramel sauce that soaks into every crevice. Which is perfectly fine with me. I thought the sweetness level was just right—"just right" to my taste buds being a smidge below "diabetes-inducing"—but if your sweet tooth is more normal than mine, the accompanying whipped cream helps to cut through the sweetness.

The Sunburnt Cow

137 Avenue C, New York NY 10009 (map) 212-529-0005; thesunburntcow.com‎

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