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Banoffee cake with toasted pecans

Banoffee cake with toasted pecans

This layered banoffee cake is both filled with caramel and topped with a caramel frosting and chopped, toasted pecans. 

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Vegetarian
  • Serves8
  • CourseCake
  • Prepare20 mins
  • Cook50 mins
  • Total time1 hr 10 mins

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Ingredients

  • 250g soft brown sugar
  • 2 Waitrose British Blacktail Free Range Eggs large
  • 200g (about 3) ripe bananas, peeled and mashed
  • 150g plain flour
  • 100g wholemeal flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 150g unsalted butter, melted

FOR THE FROSTING

  • 30g pecans
  • 150g butter, softened
  • 50g Bonne Maman Caramel Spread + 6 tbsp extra to sandwich
  • 250g golden icing sugar, sifted
  • 50ml milk

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Grease and line a 900g loaf tin. Firstly, place the pecans on a small roasting tray and toast in the oven for 5 minutes. Remove, leave to cool and then chop. Set aside until you’re ready to make the frosting.

  2. With an electric mixer, beat the sugar with the eggs until combined. Add the mashed banana and continue beating.

  3. Sieve the two flours together, then fold into the sugar and egg mixture with the baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and the spices. Stir in the melted butter. Beat until incorporated and tip into the prepared tin.

  4. Bake in the preheated oven for 45-50 minutes until risen, golden and when a skewer pushed into the middle comes out clean.

  5. Leave in the tin for 10 minutes, then remove and leave to cool completely on a wire rack. Slice the cake in 3 lengthways, then spread the top of the bottom 2 layers with 3 tbsp each of caramel and sandwich back together

  6. To make the frosting, beat the butter with the caramel, add the icing sugar a little at a time followed by the milk, and beat until light and smooth. Spread the icing all over the top of the cake, scatter with the nuts and serve with a nice cup of tea.

Nutritional

Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe

Energy

2,741kJ/ 655kcals

Fat

32.9g

Saturated Fat

19.2g

Carbohydrates

84.1g

Sugars

65.2g

Fibre

2g

Protein

5.5g

Salt

0.8g

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