At Montreal’s Restaurant L’Orignal, a date-sweetened cake becomes a sumptuous pudding with the addition of a hot, buttery toffee sauce. Pastry chef and co-owner Monika Terlecki was amenable to ...

Make the cake: Preheat the oven to 325˚. Coat a 10- to 12-cup bundt pan with baking spray and sprinkle the chopped walnuts over the bottom of the pan. Whisk together the cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, ...