Date And Banana Puddings

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 150 g self raising flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 125 g caster sugar
• 125 g butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 banana, ripe mashed
• 150 g pitted dates
• 50 g pecans

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 180c and line bases of 8 ramekins/individual pudding basins.
• 2 sift flour and baking powder together. add sugar.
• 3 beat in the mashed banana, eggs and butter.
• 4 stir in the dates and pecans.
• 5 divide mixture between the ramekins (do not over fill! leave about 1.5 cm) and bake for 20-25 minutes, until the puddings are springy.
• 6 turn out and serve warm with a sauce* or garnish of your choice. (easy to turn out when warm, but taste/texture improved a lot when it was barely warm.).
• 7 *a simple chocolate sauce was recommended - melted chocolate mixed with cream. based on the rather greasy cakes i had, i wouldn't have wanted cream or chocolate, but quite fancied some yoghurt or creme fraiche - just for tartness. perhaps caramelly, butterscotchy, slightly whiskified sauces would be good too?