1 flake
1 packet of digestives
1/3 of a pack of 250g butter
1 tin condensed milk.
1 banana
1. Put tin in to a saucepan to boil (in water obvs) for two hours, keep topping up to make sure the water doesn't evaporate. Otherwise there will be exploding-can bad times.
2. Find a thick plastic bag with no holes (freezer bags work best) put the whole packet of digestives in it and beat the crap out of it with a rolling pin, until it looks like breadcrumbs.
3. Put the butter mug, and melt in 30 secs, stir, 30 secs, sets, until melted, don't leave the spoon in the microwave unless you want a LIGHTNING STORM (or any other metal for that matter.)
4. Mix the digestives and the butter in a bowl, with a wooden spoon and, spread across the bottom of a flan/pie dish. I like pie dishes because you can fit MORE in.
5. Put the dish in the fridge until the tin has finished boiling.
6. Check the condensed milk, no explosion= good.
7. When the tin has had two hours, take it off the heat and pour into a colander (it's fricking hot btw.) Run cold water over it for about 10 secs or however much time you're willing to spend doing it in relation to how much you don't like burnt hands. The tin feels horrible, like scratchy and all fingernails down the blackboard-y. Bleugh.
8. Quickly open can with can opener, now is not the moment to discover can opener is rubbish. The quicker you open it the less delicious carameliness will get spilt. (or depending on how grim your kitchen is, the more you can lick off the side.)
9 Upend the can over the biscuit base (that you got out of the fridge earlier...) caramel will slide out and form an attractive tin shaped tower on your base.
10. Attack with a knife/spoon/your hand, depending on how much you like the people you're giving it to, to spread it all over the base,
11. Pour cream into a bowl, whip. If you haven't got an electric whisk (no student does) get a (willing) man to do it, they seem to have strangely strong upper arms, only on one side for some reason, and can do repetitive wrist motions for a long time...weird.
12. Cut up banana into pound size pieces, spread evenly across toffee. (NOTE. I hate banana, it makes me vom, due to an unfortunate incident with banana flavoured medicine at age 7, so another fruit that works= raspberries, I only do the banana one when I don't have to eat it.)
13. Spoon the whipped (should slide off spoon vv slowly if you hold the spoon upside-down) cream on top, cover the whole thing.
13. Crumble flake, in the same vein as the biscuit rage in 2.
14. Sprinkle flake on top.
15. Feed to the ravenous pit.
I have an electric whisk.
ReplyDeletetesco value, approximately a fiver or less!
because no, my arms are not that strong/I do too much baking :P xx