This sweet and sticky Bonfire Banoffee Bread is the perfect sweet treat to serve on Guy Fawkes Night to friends and family. Get the recipe below.
Bonfire night treats
Bonfire night (or Guy Fawkes night) is a night celebrated in the UK on the 5th of November every year. Its a night held in remembrance of the failed gunpowder plot of 1605. Whilst most people have forgotten the history behind the evening, what everyone in the UK does know, is that it's a night for bonfires, fireworks and other fun and frivolity.
But Guy Fawkes Night isn't just about bonfires and fireworks. There is a lot of food tradition around it too. Cinder toffee, parkin and treacle toffee are some of the sweeter treats you will find. Jacket potatoes cooked on the fire and other BBQ style dishes like burgers and hot dogs are popular too. Soup and hot chocolate are also perfect for keeping people warm on a cold night
Banoffee Bread
The deep brown of the loaf and golden toffee sauce remind me of the colours of a bonfire too, making this Banoffee Bread the perfect sweet treat for this celebration.
To make this Bonfire Banoffee Bread I swap the caster sugar usually found in banana bread recipes for soft, light brown sugar. This gives it a richer, more caramel-like flavour. To me, banana and toffee is a classic flavour combination that I've always associated with bonfire night and the light brown sugar helps to create that toffee flavour.
What makes this banoffee bread fit for a celebration is that it comes with a toffee sauce. Making a vegan toffee sauce does require one specialist ingredient - vegan condensed milk. Luckily Nestle now sell condensed milk made entirely from plant based ingredients. With some added (vegan) butter and light brown sugar melted together you get a delicious toffee sauce.
Serving suggestions
Best served warm, this loaf will please a crowd of 8 – 12 people (depending on how generous you are with your slices) and will certainly make them toasty after being out in the cold.
Pour over generous lashings of the sauce and top with banana slices or ice cream if you're feeling extra decadent.
The recipe
Bonfire Banoffee Bread
Ingredients
For the banoffee bread
- 225 g self raising flour
- 200 g light brown sugar
- 25 g chocolate chopped/chocolate chips
- 100 g butter
- 350 g ripe bananas
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
For the toffee sauce
- 370 ml vegan condensed milk
- 60 g vegan butter
- 50 g light brown sugar
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 4.
- Before combining all of the ingredients, mash up the bananas in a small bowl.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and the sugar before stirring in the mashed bananas. Ensure the wet ingredients are all fully combined.
- Toss the chocolate pieces in a little flour before stirring into the wet ingredients. Lastly add in the flour and baking powder.
- Try to avoid over mixing – lightly fold in the flour until it all comes together and transfer to a 1kg loaf tin lined with grease paper.
- Bake in the centre of the oven for 45mins or until the loaf is golden brown and a skewer comes out clean.
- Leave to cool slightly before turning out on to cooling rack and prepare the sauce.
- For the sauce, take a heavy bottomed sauce pan and pour in the condensed milk, followed by the butter and sugar.
- Melt together slowly over a low heat. Do not allow the sauce to bubble. stop stirring and remove from the heat once the butter and sugar have melted completely.
- Finally, pour over the warm banana bread and serve (with sparklers for some extra pizazz or fresh banana slices!)
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