Take your banana bread game to the next level with this caramel indulgence!
- 3 bananas (overripe is best)
- 60 g butter
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 2 eggs
- 1⅓ cups SR Flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 banana
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 30 g butter
- 1 tbsp golden syrup
Melt butter in a frying pan then pop in sugar and syrup and keep stirring over low heat til combined. Chop the bananas lengthwise and plonk them in the frying pan too. Crank the heat up and cook for a few minutes until caramel is nice and golden. The bottoms of your bananas should get nicely browned too. Take off the heat. Your bananas should be nice and soft so smush them up a bit. Let cool for a few minutes (so you don't make scrambled eggs) then pour into a bowl with the rest of your bread ingredients. Mix well and pop into a loaf tin.
Chop your final banana in thin rounds and lay them on top of your batter. Sprinkle half the topping brown sugar over, then bake at 180 deg cel until a skewer comes out clean.
Once the loaf is cooked, pop the remaining ingredients into a mug and microwave in short bursts until it just starts to caramelise. While loaf is on a cooling rack, pour over caramel. Taaaadaaaaa!!!
ps, pro tip, cut with a moist bread knife and the caramel won't misbehave!
The Ramblings:
It feels like its been minute since I’ve actually written anything much of substance on here sorry! Hope you all had a beautiful Easter. It was a big one here this year, the first time the Easter bunny visited Hazel! Fair to say, she is his new #1 fan. Believe it or not, I rarely buy chocolate anymore (aside from choc chips, they don’t count!) so this kiddo thinks all her Christmas’ have come at once with Nanny here to play with her and a fridge full of chocolate. What more could a Hazel want!
The other major excitement here is that I have fiiiiiiiinally gotten the illustrations done on my kids book that I wrote 4 years ago and it has all been sent off to the publisher!!!!!!! Just have to wait a few days for print specs to be approved then I will be able to order my first copy (for final proofing), soooooo flipping excited!!!!!!
Oh and in other news, Hazel has discovered hair product (surprisingly really considering the last ‘product’ I would have used was hairspray for my final dance concert in 2013…)….. Apparently, if one removes her own freshly filled nappy and wears it like a hat, ones hair can be styled at will with great holding power! Who would have thought!?!?!?!
When it is just she and I at home she’s nearly perfect with using the toilet but I still pop nappies on her when there excitement that could distract. I haven’t ‘tried’ to fully toilet train her yet, but this incident has certainly moved it up the agenda…..