Caramel chip banana cake

Caramel chip banana cake

Use up overripe bananas on this tea party cake, which is given an indulgent twist with crunchy caramel chips in soft frosting

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

1 ½ hours + cooling

Method

  1. Heat oven to 160C/ fan 140C/gas 3. Butter and line a 900g loaf tin with a strip of baking parchment that hangs over the short ends.
  2. To make the caramel, tip the sugar into a frying pan, shaking it to an even layer. Heat gently until it melts, tipping the pan to make sure the edges don't burn. Once melted to a golden caramel, pour it onto a baking sheet set on something that won't burn or melt. Leave to cool, then smash into small pieces.
  3. Beat the butter and sugar with an electric whisk until light and fluffy. Add the bananas and beat in with the eggs, flour, almonds, baking powder and yoghurt until smooth. Stir in 1/3 of the caramel and spoon into the tin. Bake for 45-50 minutes until the cake is golden and a skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin, then lift out by the parchment ends.
  4. Make the frosting by beating the butter and sugar. Choose a few pieces of caramel for decoration and crush the rest finely. Stir the crushed caramel into the frosting, ice the cake and decorate with caramel chips.

PER SERVING

702 kcalories, protein 7.3g, carbohydrate 79.6g, fat 41.6 g, saturated fat 22.4g, fibre 1.5g, salt 1.07 g

Recipe from olive magazine, October 2011.

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  • 21 October 2011

    cowen84 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    very easy to make and delicious to eat, the little chunks of caramel are lovely in it. had a couple of issues with my caramel and it doesnt look anything like the picture, mine is a lot darker and thicker and i burnt my 1st batch so it was very bitter, so tried again with more success. any hints on perfect caramel would be greatly appreciated. thank you!

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  • 22 October 2011

    kiara1894 commented on this recipe

    Don't stir just gently shake the caramel :)

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  • 22 October 2011

    DrFabio commented on this recipe

    You could try a wet caramel instead of a dry one, and add a splash of water to the sugar at the start, and don't stir it. I've never had success just with sugar :-(

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  • 24 October 2011

    Allie rated this recipe

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

1 ½ hours + cooling

Ingredients

  • 175g very soft butter
  • 150g golden caster sugar
  • 2 very ripe bananas broken into pieces
  • 3 eggs
  • 140g self-raising flour
  • 75g ground almonds
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 3 tbsp natural yogurt

CARAMEL

  • 200g golden caster sugar

FROSTING

  • 150g very soft butter
  • 100g icing sugar
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PER SERVING

702 kcalories, protein 7.3g, carbohydrate 79.6g, fat 41.6 g, saturated fat 22.4g, fibre 1.5g, salt 1.07 g

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