Banoffee Pie Recipe

Hey lovelies so back with a new recipe post, this is one of the easiest recipes I've ever posted and tastes amazing!

Ingredients 

250g Digestive biscuits 

75g butter 

2 tins of Nestle carnation caramel ( I know i cheated!) you can make your own however if you have time.

4 big bananas 

600ml of double cream 

A dusting of coco powder

Method

1. Have some fun and bash those biscuits, seriously beat them until they're a larger version of breadcrumbs, you'll know what i mean less powder but still a fine consistency. Melt the butter and mix well until all the biscuits are wet with the butter however don't look greasy. 

2. Pat the crumbs to create a base into your selected cake tin or bowl it doesn't matter too much what you use to make it in, it's fairly diverse with regards to that. 

3. Spread the caramel by spooning in a tea spoon at a time and mixing them together, without heavily mixing them as it'll lift the crumbs into the mix. Then spread the banana in rows around the tin.  For me I doubled up the mixture so then spread the second tin of caramel and repeated the process.

4. Finally the yummy part, whip the cream until thick and fluffy and spoon it on the top.

5. Finally dust the chocolate powder across.

6.  Cheeky tip, if you have leftover biscuits/caramel/cream/bananas, make mini deconstructed banoffee pies! Spread the caramel on the biscuit, add the banana and dollop on the cream! Enjoy

Hope you enjoy my little dessert its one I find myself siting over the bowl with a spoon in times of desperation! Oh my poor thighs!
Carly
xoxo

Banana, Carrot and Walnut Cake Recipe

Hey guys so sorry for the lack of posting recently what with getting back into a fitness routine and settling in at home again after my holidays, I haven't had time to post, However I'm back and ready to make your weekend better with this fabby recipe! 

Ingredients 

For the Cake...

175g Plain Flour

175g of Soft Brown Sugar

3 Eggs

1/2 a cup of sunflower oil

100g of Walnuts (chopped)

2 Bananas (Preferably ripe)

175g Grated carrot (I bought mine pre grated but feel free to grate them yourself)

1 tsp of Cinnamon 

1 tsp of Ground mix spice

1/2 tsp of Nutmeg

1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

1 tsp of Salt 

For the Icing 

75g of cream cheese

75g butter 

300g of icing sugar 

walnuts for decoration

1 tsp Vanilla essence

If you don't have a cup measure (sorry for being inconvenient), find a little converter here, which can help...    http://www.metric-conversions.org/volume/cups-to-milliliters.htm

Method 

1. Preheat the oven to 175 C and make sure to grease your cake tin

2. Mix the eggs and sugar together until they form a thick paste. Add in the rest of the ingredients, flour, bicarb, salt and walnuts first, then oil, then carrot and banana and finally the spices. In all honesty it doesn't matter what order you add the ingredients too much as long as they're all there!

3. Bake for an hour until a skewer comes out clean, it may take longer depeding on your oven.

4. For the icing mix the butter and cream cheese together before adding in the icing sugar, for a less stiff mixture using only half the suggested amount works too!

5.  Once the cake has cooled spread the icing over the top and decorate with chopped walnuts.

6. DIG IN 

Thanks for reading guys and hope you enjoyed this post don't forget to follow me on instagram and tag me in your baking creations...    (@carlymcleary). 

Love Carly xx