Banana Dessert

First thing's first, I apologise for not posting up recipes for the past two months. I've been super busy working 6 days a week and juggling uni assignments and exams. After that, I had a whole bunch of drama happening and I basically was too depressed to even cook! But I'm back and I'm going to start on a sweet sweet note!

I had super ripe bananas and at first I was thinking of making banana muffins... then I got lazy :p Plus I wanted to try something new so I surfed around the web and found a recipe for caramelised bananas. Click to view the recipe I got my inspiration from :)

From the photographs you can see that my recipe and the one I gained inspiration from are very different. I used similar ingredients. So here it is!

Ingredients:

Butter (2 tablespoon)

2 Ripe Banana (mine were really really soft)

Light Brown Sugar (3 tsp or more if you want it sweeter)

A pinch of cinnamon

• Step 1, melt the butter in a pot 
• Step 2, add in the sugar and stir till melted and well combined
• Step 3, add in the banana and mix till all bananas are coated
• Step 4, continue to stir the mixture till warm (to ensure the bottom doesn't burn)
• Step 5, move the mixture into a bowl and add in the pinch of cinnamon and mix 
• Step 6, DONE!

I haven't been cooking much and today was my first day cooking proper meals again. I gobbled this dessert up in 5 minutes. It's a great way to use up ripe bananas. Another recipe I was thinking of doing was making goreng pisang which is basically deep fried bananas. However I don't often deep fry because of the busy clean up and the need to store the excess oil. So if you're thinking of using ripe bananas for a quick dessert, you could give this recipe a go :) 

 Hugs for everyone~ Go bananas!

Recently I decided to give a go on making Pavlova. I used Donna Hay's recipe. It was simple and relatively easy. However, just as Donna said in the season 2 of Australia's Masterchef, it's a simple recipe where so many things can go wrong.

Essentially the most important thing for me was the ensure that my equipment and utensils were clean and free from any oil (deemed excess oil) that would ruin my egg whites from rising. Plus, I have never done a pavlova so I made sure I was extra careful with the accuracy and amount of ingredients I used.

I'm really happy with the results. The crust is nice and hard but the only problem is how my crust rose so high but my insides were quite low. So my crust would crumble. This could have been because I accidentally added in the a little cornstarch and used a mixer instead of folding it in with a spoon.

Other than that, everything seemed okay :) I tried to make fresh cream from milk, but it failed miserably so I stuck to a caramel sauce with bananas instead :p  I've never tried a pavlova but I do like that it has a good hard crust with a mashmallowy inside :3

 Hugs for everyone~ Try making your own pavlova!