Self-saucing Banana Butterscotch Pudding

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups self-raising flour
• 1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 orange, zest of, finely grated
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon or 1/2 teaspoon cardamom
• 1/3 cup raisins
• 1 banana, very ripe and mashed
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup boiling water
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 banana

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.
• 2 slice the banana thinly and place in the abse of a 6 cup capacity baking dish.
• 3 combine the flour, brown sugar, orange zest, cardamon or cinnamon and raisins in a bowl, breaking up clumps of raisins.
• 4 stir the mashed banana, butter, egg and milk together in a bowl and using a large metal spoon, fold into the flour. pour the batter over the sliced banana.
• 5 topping: put the boiling water, butter and brown sugar in a jug and stir to dissolve the sugar. gently pour the topping over the pudding. if you pour it over the back of a spoon, the topping will evenly distribute without damaging the top of the batter.
• 6 bake for 40 minutes until the pudding is firm to touch and is pulling away from the sides of the dish. the top will have cracks in it.
• 7 to serve: dust the pudding with icing sugar and serve with ice cream, soft whipped cream or greek yogurt.