Friday, 4 July 2008

Butterscotch Banana Pudding

Okay, I'm in a bit of a cooking mood at the moment, and after my story of yesterday's disaster I thought I'd better prove I'm not completely hopeless in the kitchen, haha. BP and I realised the other day that we brake out in pimples when we eat too much chocolate, we're like a pizza topping at the moment. And a few weeks ago probably 90% of my recipes have chocolate in some form in them(I'm a real dessert-cooking girl, I hardly cook anything else!). So I've been trying to cook stuff without chocolate in it, so I've been looking for recipes with fruit in them.
First off I want to include a link to Trail Riding Cowgirl's recipe, Cowgirl Cobbler. I cooked this with apples the other day and it's delicious!

But the recipe I'm writing up is for a Butterscotch Banana Pudding. I cut it out from a magazine a few weeks back and now I can't remember which one it was. The reason it appealed to me so much was it was all ingredients I had in my pantry/fridge at the time (okay okay so I had to go buy the banana but a lot of people do have them when they're in season).  I love the recipe because I don't feel half as guilty after eating a bowl of this as I do after eating a chocolate pudding, but I'm probably just kidding myself there (shhh!!).

Ingredients:

• 1 ¼ cups self-raising flour
• 2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 80g melted butter
• ½ cup golden syrup
• 1 banana
• 1 1/3 cups boiling water

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 170°C.
2. Mash 1 large banana to give ½ cup mashed banana.
3. Sift flour and 1/3 cup of the brown sugar into a large bowl, whisk in banana, egg, melted butter and 2 tablespoon of the golden syrup to form a smooth, thick batter.
4. Spread batter over base of a greased 6-cup capacity ovenproof dish.
5. Sprinkle remaining 1/3 cup of brown sugar over batter.
6. Combine remaining golden syrup in a jug with 1 1/3 cups boiling water. Gently pour syrup mixture over brown sugar on pudding batter.
7. Place dish on oven tray and bake for 50 minutes.

2 comments:

LittleRed said...

Hey there,
I'm going to try this one. Thanks for the recipe, and I'll keep on checking back to see what you're up to. Happy blogging!
Debbie

Gecko said...

I really hope you like it as much as I do, I haven't made it again simply because once I start I can't stop eating it!!

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