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Banana Upside Down Cake with Maple Toffee Sauce & Beer Candied Bacon

This sticky, moist Maple Banana Upside Down Cake is served with a warm Maple Toffee Sauce and Beer & Brown Sugar Candied Bacon !
Course Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American, Canadian
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 50 minutes
Servings 12 portions
Calories 390 kcal
Author Kiki Johnson

Ingredients

  • For the Brown Sugar & Beer Candied Bacon
  • 100 g Bacon
  • 4 tbsp brown sugar
  • 5 tbsp dark strong beer or stout
  • For the Cake
  • 100 g softened butter
  • 8 tbsp maple syrup
  • 3 small ripe bananas
  • 1 very overripe banana
  • 200 g dark brown soft sugar
  • 4 large egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 200 g flour
  • 3/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 100 g almonds roasted and coarsely chopped
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 200 g pot full-fat Greek yogurt
  • For the sauce
  • 100 g whole almonds
  • 100 g salted butter diced
  • 100 ml cream
  • 100 ml maple syrup

Instructions

  1. For the Beer & Brown Sugar Candied Bacon
  2. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
  3. Mix brown sugar and beer well until a syrup forms.Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place a wire cooling rack on top. Place the pieces of bacon on top of the rack, overlapping if necessary. Place in oven and cook for 10 minutes.
  4. Remove from oven and brush one side of the bacon with the beer syrup. Flip, and coat the other side with the syrup as well. Return to oven and cook for 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and repeat process another time or two more, until bacon is crispy and browned, and you’ve used all the glaze.
  5. Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease a 20cm square cake tin or a 23 cm springform pan and line the base with baking parchment. For the cake, pour in half the syrup, swirling to coat the bottom. Peel and halve the 3 ripe bananas lengthways and lay, cut-side down, in the tin.
  6. Beat together the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and overripe banana with an electric whisk. Tip the flour and roasted almonds into a food processor and pulse until finely ground together. Stir into the butter mixture with the baking soda and nutmeg, then stir in the yogurt. Carefully spoon into the tin without dislodging the bananas. Bake the cake for 45 mins-1 hr until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out with only moist crumbs.
  7. Meanwhile, make the sauce. Toast the almonds for 1-2 mins in a pan, add the remaining ingredients and a pinch of salt and cook until the butter has melted. Then bubble for 5 mins until it has thickened a little.
  8. When the cake is cooked, poke it all over with the skewer – inserting it about halfway into the cake each time. Pour over the remaining maple syrup and allow it to soak in for a few mins, then turn the cake out of the tin, upside-down, onto a serving plate. Reheat the sauce, pour some over the cake right before serving and sprinkle the candied bacon on top.