Banoffee Cakey

A bunch of friends convened last night to help the-happy-couple-to-be (the wedding is next week) move some furniture. She is moving in with him, and apparently he has no storgae…typical man! In return for offering up the servies of husbands and boyfriends as furniture movers, we were amply rewarded with supper and wonderful G&Ts. I provided dessert, without really thinking through the challenges of transporting a cake in the rush hour. Fortunately it was well protected in my new Lock and Lock Cake Transporter.

Banoffee Cakey
Ingredients

175 g butter
350 g caster sugar
3 medium eggs, separated
150 ml milk
175 g self-raising flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
6 tbs cocoa powder
1 tin condensed milk
1 banana, sliced
1 small tub double cream, whipped.

Method

Before you do anything else, you will need to make the toffee sauce. Remove the paper label from the tin, put it in a pan of boiling water and simmer for three hours, keeping the water topped up as necessary. This was always Gary Rhodes’ way of making toffee sauce, and it works wonderfully well. If, however, you are feeling lazy, try the new ready made version from Carnation.

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C.
2. Grease and line 2 shallow 20cm cake tins or 1 x 20cm cake tin.
3. Place the butter and half the sugar in a mixing bowl and cream together until light in colour.
4. Beat in the egg yolks and stir in the milk.
5. Mix together the flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa and sieve into the cake mixture. Stir until completely mixed.
6. Whisk the egg whites until stiff but not dry.
7. Add the remaining sugar and whisk for a further 1-2 minutes. Fold gently into the cake mixture and pour into the prepared tin.
8. Bake for 30-40 minutes if using the shallow tins and 1 1/4 – 1 1/2 hours for the deep tin. Turn out onto a cooling rack and leave until cold.
9. Put bottom layer on a cake plate and smear with a nice thick layer of toffee sauce (seriously- 2/3 tin.) Add banana slices.
10. Add top layer of cake, then smear that with a good layer of whipped cream, then decorate with banana slices.

Oh, and if you are really in a hurry, you could always use the Betty Crocker Devils Food Cake mix…