Toffee and banana mini loaf cakes
A great excuse to make a cake from those overripe bananas and you'll love the sticky, fudge topping with a hint of sea salt
Ingredients
- 125g (4˝oz) stoned dates, roughly chopped
- 175g (6oz) butter, softened
- 150g (5oz) golden caster sugar
- 3 large free-range eggs
- 185g (6˝oz) plain flour
- 1tsp baking powder
- ˝tsp ground cinnamon
- ˝tsp ground ginger
- 250g (9oz) very ripe bananas (unpeeled weight), mashed
- 225g (8oz) muscovado sugar
- 175g (6oz) unsalted butter
- 175ml (6fl oz) double cream
- ˝tsp each vanilla extract and sea salt
- dried banana chips, to decorate
- 7 or 8 disposable mini loaf tins, measuring 7.5x4x4cm (3x1˝x1˝in), available from Sainsbury's
Preparation
Heat the oven to 180C, 160C fan, 350F, gas 4. To make the cakes, in a small saucepan, bring the dates to the boil with just enough water to cover them; simmer for 5 minutes. Drain then whizz in a food processor until smooth. Set aside to cool.
Cream the butter and sugar until pale, light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs, adding 1tbsp of the flour if it curdles. Fold in the rest of the flour, the baking powder and spices. Then fold in the bananas and dates. Divide the mixture between the tins and bake in the oven for 20 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
To make the topping, gently melt the sugar and butter in a medium saucepan until the sugar dissolves. Allow to cook for 5 minutes on a low heat then, stirring constantly, add the cream, vanilla and salt. Take off the heat and allow to cool and thicken.
Once the cakes have cooled, pour over the topping and decorate with a few dried banana chips.
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