Cold, winter weather makes you crave hearty, warm, delicious puds. This easy to make banana upside down cake fulfils the criteria!
We’ve posted a few recipes that use bananas as an ingredient, they’re a daily staple in our diet chez H is for Home – even Fudge loves them!
This banana upside down cake is delicious served warm or at room temperature, with extra butterscotch and/or custard.
Banana upside down cake
Ingredients
- cake mix
- 3 large bananas
- 250 g/9oz plain flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 eggs
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 85 g/3oz butter
- 125 g/4½oz soft brown sugar
- 150 ml/5fl oz milk
- 1 capful dark rum
- butterscotch sauce
- 100 g/3½oz soft brown sugar
- 150 ml/5fl oz double cream
- ½ tbs golden syrup
- 12 g/½oz butter
- 1 capful dark rum
Instructions
- Peel & slice 2 of the bananas
- Grease the base of an 18cm/7in loose-based, deep cake tin, line the base with the banana slices, overlapping slightly
- Put all the butterscotch sauce ingredients into a small saucepan
- Stir over a medium heat using a wooden spoon until the mixture is well combined and begins to bubble
- Reduce the heat and simmer for a further 5 minutes, stirring occasionally
- Pour enough of the sauce into the cake tin to almost cover the bananas
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350°F/Gas mark 4
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter with the sugar until fluffy
- In a small measuring jug, lightly whisk the eggs
- Slowly add the eggs to the sugar & butter mixture, stirring continuously
- Add the rum and vanilla essence and mix until combined
- Sift the flour and baking powder into a small mixing bowl
- Add the flour in 3 batches to the batter, alternating with adding the milk, stirring continuously, until well combined
- Chop the last banana into cubes and gently fold into the batter
- Pour the mixture carefully & evenly over the butterscotch-covered bananas
- Bake for 50-60 minutes until a skewer inserted into the middle comes away clean
- Leave to rest for 10 minutes before running a sharp knife around the circumference of the cake tin and carefully flipping it over onto a plate
- Lift off the cake tin outer rim, run the knife carefully across the tin bottom before lifting it off
- Serve warm with the rest of the (reheated) butterscotch sauce
