Masterchef UK Professionals

Caribbean Sticky Toffee Pudding with Miso Caramel and Fig Leaf Ice Cream. 

Gareth: "My family - my mum, my dad, both my sisters - lived in Trinidad and Tobago for a long time. They came back to sunny Carlisle before I was born, but we visited and those flavors and that culture has always sort of been around in our lives. So I'm cooking for you a Cumbrian classic with a Caribbean twist." He made a sticky toffee pudding sponge served with a miso caramel sauce. Further accompaniments included a banana and rum creme diplomat - lightly whipped cream with rum folded through for a mousse-like texture - a lime and rum gel, a pecan twill dusted with banana sherbet, and caramelized banana. His fig leaf ice cream, infused with leaves from his mother's garden and smoked at plating in a cherry wood aroma, was his first ever ice cream. Gareth: "Fig leaf just has the most beautiful, pungent aroma. The fig leaves have come from my mom's garden. And my mom, she always cooks the best sticky toffee puddings, so hopefully I can deliver something as good as what she would do." {Judge}: "The sponge mix wasn't quite right. Gareth is making a rum and lime gel - he needs to be careful. We've had a gel from Gareth before, it was a very smoky whiskey gel and it was just too strong."