Depending on where you live, it may be easier to make your own sticky toffee pudding than get it at a restaurant.

If that’s the case, and you enjoy baking, here are a selection of highly rated recipes:

• The original recipe and Simon Hopkinson’s updated version (British measurements and instructions)
• Smitten Kitchen’s recipe (American measurements and instructions)
• Chowhound’s recipe (American measurements and instructions)

(If you don’t like to cook, con a friend into it! If you’ll buy the ingredients, you’d be surprised how obliging your foodie friends might be.)

Image credit: Danny Molyneux