Banana Toad in the Hole

Banana Toad in the Hole


It was the first ever Batter Week on GBBO last week, and after a great deal of umming and aahing, I have made a Banana Toad in the Hole as my contribution to the #GBBOTwitterBakeAlong

Batter is a tricky beast. I have great success with pancakes, but home-made Yorkshire puddings are a bit scary. It's partly because my mum is the absolute Queen of Yorkshire Puds. Hers rise to epic proportions and everyone fights over the last one. Her Yorkshire tin got a bit past its best after so many years of use, so she threw it out and bought a new one. She claims that her Yorkshires have never ever been as good again, but they taste pretty great to me!

As I had chickened out of doing individual Yorkshire puds, I decided to go for what is effectively one giant Yorkshire and make Banana Toad in the Hole. I sweetened the batter with caster sugar, added cinnamon and laid sliced bananas in the batter. Yum! It's a bit like a pre-built pancake. Even better when you pour some of the chocolate sauce over it! Ideally, you need bananas that are not over-ripe if you want to successfully slice them lengthways. If you really need to use up over-ripe banana, you might get away with slicing it in circles and tipping them into the batter once it's in the dish.

Like all oven-baked batter, it's important that the batter is really well whisked and that the oil is sizzling hot in the dish before you pour the batter in. That helps you get a nice rise and crispy edges.

If you want to have a delicious chocolate sauce poured over your Banana Toad in the Hole- there's a nice one here: BBC Good Food Simple Chocolate Sauce Otherwise, vanilla ice cream works well.


Banana Toad in the Hole Pinterest Image



Ingredients

140g plain flour
2 eggs
175ml milk
1 tsp cinammon
3 tbsp sugar
2 bananas
1 tbsp oil

Method

1. Put the oil in a medium glass casserole dish. Put into a pre-heated oven at 220 (200 fan, gas mark 5)
2.Mix together the dry ingredients well- flour, cinnamon and sugar.
3. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and crack the eggs into it.
4. Whisk the eggs slowly into the dry ingredients using a hand whisk or an electric one, until they are well combined into a very thick batter.
5. Pour a little milk at a time into the mixture, continuing to whisk until you have a thinner, frothy batter.
6. Slice the bananas lengthways.
7. When the oil is sizzling hot, carefully remove the dish from the oven and place ona heat-proof surface. Pour the batter into the oil and quickly lay the banana slices into the batter.
8. Return to the oven as quickly as possible.
9. Cook for 25-30 minutes or until the batter looks cooked through.
10. If the batter on the top starts to go a bit too brown, cover it with foil for the remaining time.
11. Serve with ice cream or the chocolate sauce recommended above, or both!


Banana Toad in the Hole with chocolate sauce

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