BANOFFE BIRTHDAY CAKE
My daughter’s birthday cake.
This year, mischievous nature tried to upset my daughter’s birthday plans. Spending your birthday in bed with a thermometer isn’t an excellent idea ¬– even for an adult.
For a teenager it is a drama comparable to cancelled holidays. My daughter told me that you are thirteen only once. And she was right. Literally and figuratively.
I wanted to sugar the pill… for her on this day and cheer her up for a bit, so I prepared a caramel cake with bananas – banoffee in the form of a small birthday cake.
My sweet magic and the dinner from her favourite restaurant worked, and in the end her birthday was quite nice.
Use a (17cm cake tin).
150 g of biscuits
75 g of butter
200 ml of 30% sweet cream
250 g of mascarpone cheese
2 tablespoons of caster sugar
2 bananas
300 g of fudge
1 teaspoon of dark cocoa
Break the biscuits into very small pieces or blend them. Melt the butter and mix it up with the biscuits until you have dough like wet sand. Put it into a cake tin and form the base.
It is worth rolling it flat with a glass. Leave it in the fridge for one hour. Spread the biscuit layer with fudge and arrange the sliced bananas on top.
Whisk the chilled sweet cream with the caster sugar. Add the mascarpone cheese and mix it in. Put the mixture onto the bananas and make it even.
Sprinkle with the dark cocoa and decorate as you like. Leave it in the fridge for a few hours (best for the whole night).
Photo and recipe Katarzyna Posłuszny
https://www.home-madepatchwork.com/
