Goodness me it’s been a while since my last blog post. We’ve had a really busy summer at Maisie Fantaisie making lots of wedding cakes and I haven’t had a moment. So my apologies to you for that.
Last weekend was my nieces 7th birthday so we headed down to the cotswolds to help out with her ‘Teddy Bears’ picnic party. Lots of bunting, jelly and ice cream, mini sweet treats and of course a cake made by a doting Aunt! We danced and played games and while tucking into a mini mars bar (a sweet treat I haven’t had for years!) it brought back memories of being a child and my Mum melting mars bars and pouring the sauce over vanilla ice cream. The caramel and nougat ingredients of the mars bar gives the sauce a toffee chocolate flavour, really delicious and very naughty!
I’ve been wanting to make some yummy banana cakes for a while and I think that this mars bar sauce topping is perfect. This banana cake recipe makes a really lovely light sponge and the sauce is a sticky delight which makes these cakes a truly scrumptious treat.
‘BANANA AND MARS BAR CAKES’ (banana and vanilla bean cakes, mars bar sauce)
Makes 12 cakes
Banana cake recipe
250g softened butter or margarine
250g golden caster sugar
5 eggs
250g self raising flour
5 ripe bananas
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Mars bar sauce recipe
4 mars bars (58g bars)
4 tablespoons single cream
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees celsius (160 for fan ovens).
2. Line a 12 cup muffin tin with 12 muffin size cases.
3. Cream the butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl.
4. Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each edition.
5. Sift in the flour and baking powder, mix until thoroughly combined.
6. Add the vanilla extract.
7. In another bowl mash the banana with a fork.
8. Add the bananas to the vanilla sponge mix and combine thoroughly.
9. Evenly distribute the mixture between the 12 muffin cases.
10. Place in the middle shelf of the oven and bake for 30 mins until golden brown.
11. Whilst the cakes are cooling, cut the mars bars into chunks and place in a small pan (a non-stick pan would be best).
12. On a very low heat, melt the mars bars and stir in the cream.
13. When the cakes are cool, pour the hot mars bar sauce over each one and add a few chocolate sprinkles.
‘BANANA AND MARS BAR CAKES’
2 Comments
banana and chocolate.. both are my favorites.. i will try the cake recipe and let u know how it works… thanks for sharing..
Oh my god those cakes are too die for they look seriously naughty!