Self Saucing Caramel Pudding

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Self Saucing Caramel Pudding
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60g butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 cup self-raising flour

Sauce
20g butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup boiling water
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Preheat oven to 180°C and grease a baking dish.

Combine softened butter and sugar in a bowl. Add milk and stir in sifted flour. Place the mixture evenly in baking dish.

In a microwave safe bowl, place all sauce ingredients and stir until butter has melted. Microwave about 3 minutes, stirring till sugar and butter is combined.
Carefully pour the sauce onto the batter.

Bake pudding for 20-30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

Allow to stand for 10 minutes before serving. Serve with ice cream.

Banana Bread

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Banana Bread
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2 eggs
60g brown sugar
60g sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons natural yoghurt
2 or 3 ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 cup)
1 cup walnuts, chopped
150g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
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(base measurements 20cm x 10cm loaf pan)

Preheat oven to 160ºC.

Line a loaf pan with baking paper.
In a large bowl, beat eggs and sugar together with an electric mixer for 5 minutes or until the mixture forms a ribbon when whisk is lifted.

Add oil and yoghurt mix well, and then add mushed banana.

Sift flour, baking soda and cinnamon together and gently fold into the egg mixture.

Pour the mixture into pan and bake for 60 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

Cool in pan for 15 minutes and turn out onto a rack to cool.