Making your own caramel sauce takes this banana bread to the next level.
Ingredients
For the banana bread:
- 500g banana
- 600g sugar
- 2g salt
- 5 eggs
- 25g baking soda
- 375g milk
- 600g flour
- 300g oil
Simple Caramel Sauce
- 200g caster sugar
- 90g butter (room temp, cubed)
- 120ml cream (room temp)
- Pinch flaky sea salt (optional, for salted caramel)
Method
To make the banana bread
- Mix well sugar and banana.
- Add the flour and baking soda.
- Add eggs, followed by oil.
- Grease and flour a bread tin, and bake for 55 minutes at 170 degrees.
- Serve warm, or cold.
- Garnish with some simple caramel sauce, whipped cream and sliced banana to create a very simple but delicious dessert.
To make the caramel sauce
- Add sugar to a heavy-based saucepan.
- Heat on medium, no stirring — just gently swirl the pan as it melts.
- It will clump, then melt into a deep amber liquid.
- Watch carefully — once it turns golden, it can burn quickly.
- Add butter, remove from heat.
- Whisk in butter (it will bubble aggressively — that's normal).
- Slowly pour in cream while whisking.
- It will bubble again — keep whisking until smooth.
- Stir in a pinch of sea salt if making salted caramel.
- Let cool slightly — it thickens as it cools.
