Island desserts
You Will Need :
• a flat round dish
• a cake
• 2 ripe bananas
• 75g soft margarine
• 175g self raising flour
• 2 eggs
• 50g light muscovado sugar
• 1 tablespoon demerara sugar
• oil for greasing
• To make it, you need to get a dish. Ideally, a flat round one although any sort will do
• Pre-heat oven to gas mark 4/180C/350 F. Grease and line 18cm (7 inch) square shallow cake tin.
• Place bananas in a large mixing bowl and mash them with a fork. Add all the remaining ingredients except the demerara sugar and beat with a wooden spoon until well mixed.
• Pour the mixture in the prepared tin and level the top. Sprinkle with the demerara sugar.
• Bake in the centre of the oven for 25-30 minutes, or until springy to the touch and the cake begins to pull away from the edges of the tin.
• Cool on a wire rack
• Once you've got a cake, pop it into the centre of the dish.
• For rippling waves, mix up some jelly according to the instructions on the packet. Leave it to cool, and whilst you're waiting for that to happen, you can make some sealife!
• These fruit fish shapes have been cut from slices of nectarine, although you can use orange if you like.
• Once the creatures are in position, add the jelly before it sets. Pour it right up to the rim of the dish. Leave the jelly to set.
• To decorate, add some squirty cream for waves. And how about some neach towels made from paper napkins, for the island dessert castways to lie on? Shady palm trees made from straws with crepe paper leaves look very realistic.
• And you could even have a chocolate raft made from chocolate fingers for the castaways to float around on!
Island desserts
