treacle sponge pudding

{{short description|British dessert}}

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| image = Treacle sponge (4240114074).jpg

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| place_of_origin = United Kingdom

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| course = Dessert

| type = Pudding

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| main_ingredient = Sponge cake, Treacle

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A treacle sponge pudding is a traditional British dessert dish consisting of a steamed sponge cake with treacle cooked on top of it, sometimes also poured over it and often served with hot custard.{{cite book | last=Mitchell | first=M.M. | title=The Treasure Cookery Book: Containing the Principles and Rules of Modern Cookery, Including Numerous Recipes | publisher=Longmans, Green and Company | year=1913 | url=https://archive.org/details/b21537987 | access-date=February 10, 2019 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/b21537987/page/329 329]-330}}

The dish has been mass-produced and imported into the United States, and provided to consumers as a canned product that can be cooked in a microwave oven.{{cite web | last=Gillin | first=Brett | title=I'm Eating What?! Treacle Sponge Pudding | website=New Times Broward-Palm Beach | date=August 5, 2009 | url=https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/restaurants/im-eating-what-treacle-sponge-pudding-6394402 | access-date=February 10, 2019}}