Banana cake trifle
Our fridge has buckled during the heatwave, it has slowly given up on us and the amount of food we’ve had to throw away is tragic.
We’re big on bananas but we haven’t been able to keep up with how quickly they have gone from green tips to freckled black, the perfect excuse to experiment with banana bread recipes.
I have made banana bread with sour cream, yoghurt, buttermilk, black treacle. My work colleagues were sick of it and so was my family, my freezer started to work overtime to keep it all from going to waste.
There are no rules when it comes to layering these trifle pots, mix and alternate as much as your glass is tall with banana, cake, custard and salted caramel. Top it with loads of caramelised nuts.
Banana cake trifle (serves 3-4)
For the custard:
150ml milk
150ml double cream
1 tsp vanilla paste
1 tbsp cornflour
3 egg yolks
50g sugar
1. Add milk, double cream and vanilla paste to pan and bring it to a slow boil, remove from heat and leave it to cool
2. Whisk the yolks and sugar until pale and fluffy, add to milky mixture, return to hob stirring constantly for a couple of minutes
3. Mix the cornflour with 2 tbsp of cold water and add to the milk mixture, cooking for a further 2 minutes. Leave it to cool at room temperature and cover the mixture with cling film. Let it cool in the fridge.
For the salted caramel:
180g caster sugar
250ml double cream
50g butter
pinch of sea salt
1. Slowly melt the sugar on a heavy based pan, once melted add butter stirring until melted and lastly add the cream.
For the caramelised nuts:
150g chopped nuts
150g caster sugar
1. Add nuts to pan and toast them for a minute, stirring constantly. Set aside.
2. Add sugar to the pan and melt it completely, add nuts to pan and swirl pan until all nuts are covered by the sugar. Pour the hot mixture onto a well greased baking tray. Let it cool completely before chopping it into small pieces
Additional trifle ingredients:
300-400g crumbled banana bread (homemade or shop bought works!)
Bananas
200ml Double cream, whipped to stiff peaks
1. start with banana bread, wet it with salted caramel, layer with sliced bananas, a generous few tablespoons of custard. Add more crumbled banana bread, salted caramel
2. Top it with double cream, sliced banana and sprinkle with caramelised nuts
