Bannoffee Cake!

 

I've been wanting to start a food blog for a while, and since my cupcake business is yet to take off (I am still working on world domination with cupcakes) my cooking and baking has expanded in to other tasty delights, which I thought I would write about and share with all of you

Today happens to be one of my sister's birthdays (Happy Birthday Lill) and she loves Bannoffee pie but isn't to keen on cream so I made her a Bannoffee Cake, all that great Toffee-Caramel- Banana flavour not so much cream...

 

I started with a base Banana cake recipe, I'm a kiwi girl so I used the Edmonds Cookery Book's recipe www.edmondscooking.co.nz, of course I needed to add some caramel flavour, so I made some butterscotch sauce, which I added to the mix just before cooking saving some of decorating and making butterscotch frosting....

Banana Cake

125g butter softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
3-4 mashed ripe bananas
 (I only had 2 banana's on hand so I added 2 tablespoons of apple sauce)
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons hot milk
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

Cream butter and Sugar until light and fluffy, I always find it easier to soften the butter with the sugar in the mircowave, it seems to stop the butter turning into liquid, once creamed add the eggs one at a time. Add Banana and mix through. Heat milk then add soda, it should froth up, this is important otherwise your cake won't rise, then add it to your cake mix. Sift in remaining dry ingredients, and fold through.Pour mix into a greased 20cm tin, swirl through a couple of tablespoons of butterscotch  sauce then bake at 180C for 50 mins, or until cooked

Allow Cake to cool Completely! I left it over night, then cut it in half so you can fill and ice it.

Filling

Butterscotch sauce (I make my own but store brought is fine)
Whipped Cream
Banana

on the bottom layer of cake place a generous amount of butterscotch sauce top with sliced banana and whipped cream, then carefully place the top layer of cake on top.

Icing

Butterscotch Frosting,
150g Butter
1 cup Butterscotch sauce
175g of Icing sugar

Beat all ingredients together until fluffy, you may need more icing sugar

Now the fun part decorating the cake, I made chocolate dipped banana slices for the top and a toffee shard, I also found some cute white chocolate letters at the supermarket. I basically just iced the cake and layer the banana slices on top, but do whatever you feel like, it's your cake