Recipe: Banana Upside Down Cake

Banana Upside Down Cake

For lovers of caramel everywhere METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. 2. Line a 20 x 20cm square baking tin or a 23cm round tin with baking parchment. It’s best not to use a loose-bottomed tin but if you do fold the parchment so it goes up the sides of the tin too. Otherwise, the caramel will leak out into the oven! 3. To make the topping, place the sugar, butter, and golden syrup into a small heavy-bottomed saucepan. Heat until all the sugar and butter have melted. Stir gently and pour into the tin, tilting the tin backwards and forwards so the layer of caramel completely covers the bottom. 4. Slice the bananas into pieces about 2cm thick. Place them in the caramel. 5. For the cake, mash the bananas with a fork then mix into the yogurt. Set aside. 6. Place the butter and sugar into a large mixing bowl. Whisk till pale and fluffy. 7. Add the vanilla extract and eggs, one at a time, whisking after each one. 8. Sift the flour and spices together and gradually fold into the mixing bowl. Then fold in the banana and yoghurt mixture. 9. Spoon the batter into the cake tin on top of the caramel and bananas. 10. Bake at 180°C for about 45 minutes. Test with a skewer to see if it's cooked. If necessary bake for a little longer. 11. When ready, remove the cake from the oven and let it stand for a couple of minutes. Then place a plate on top of the tin and turn it over to remove the cake. 12. Serve warm with cream, custard, or ice cream. Preparation time: 25 minutes. Cooking time: 45 minutes INGREDIENTS

For Banana Topping 120 g brown sugar 60 g butter 1.5 tbsp golden syrup 3 bananas sliced For the Cake 2 ripe bananas 2 tbsp yoghurt 90 g butter at room temperature 180 g caster sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 eggs 180 g self-raising flour ½ tsp cinnamon ¼ tsp nutmeg

W E E L L O O O O K K F F O O RW RW A A R R D D T T O O W E E L L C C O O M M I I N N G G Y Y O O U U

THE KINGS HEAD INN

T.E.A. drinkers Pub of the Year 2020

North Sussex CAMRA

PUB OF THE MONTH June 2017

Voted West Sussex Pub of the Year 2017 & 2019

Boutique hotel rooms FOOD SERVED WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY

LIVE MUSIC Saturday 18th September: The Magpies MURDER MYSTERY NIGHT 11th/12th Oct Billingshurst Dramatic Society, tickets £15 includes evening meal

THE KINGS HEADINN

PUB-DINING-ROOMS

Showing all live matches from the English Premier League 40 High St, Billingshurst, RH14 9NY Tel: (01403) 782012 E: kingsheadinnbookings@gmail.com

KingsHead Billingshurst

@kingsheadbhurst

Mon-Thurs: 11am-11pm. Fri-Sat: 11am-12am. Sun: 12pm-11pm

Medals

This summer our screens have filled with proud sportspeople holding high their Olympic medals – well-deserved rewards for years of relentless training. Behind the triumph of this moment will be the tireless support of families, friends and coaches backing up individuals’ talent with the greatest of support.

Most of us will never hold an Olympic medal high. There may well lurk in our drawers a 5K race medal or a swimming badge from our youth. However, in our personal experience there will have been moments when we feel like we do indeed deserve a medal. Others may never know what life medals we deserve. Those achievements commonly remain unrecognised. For some it might be getting through another day caring for a dependent loved one, costing us all the energy we have. For others, maybe persevering with studying or moving house. How about those private successes of maintaining family relationships despite great difficulties? Living daily with ill health, doing our best to make the most of life. What medal would honour your personal efforts at this moment?

An athlete has a coach to help them achieve their goals. We too may look around for support and advice. Some of us have the gift of friends and family for wise counsel. The internet overflows with ideas and coaching that in itself takes a medal once you’ve worked out what to believe! Where can we turn for the companionship and encouragement akin to an athlete’s ever-present coach beside them? Well, the Bible describes God as beside us constantly, understanding and knowing what our life involves. Deep within our heart we may know God’s eternal love and presence through the gift of God’s Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has been described by some like a coach. How wonderful to have a coach that encourages you, calls you on and fills you with courage to keep going. A coach that inspires and empowers you as you live out your life. All we need to do is ask. “…the One who is coming to stand by you, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will be your teacher” (John 14:25-26 J.B. Phillips New Testament).

really is

^ It time to wake up... ... and start SINGING!!

BCS is finally able to announce that rehearsals will begin again on Tuesday 7th September at 7:30pm in the Billingshurst Community & Conference Centre. New members are always welcome Please call Keith on 07989 412997

www.billingshurstchoralsociety.org.uk

BCS is a registered charity (No 801503) and is affiliated to Making Music, The National Federation of Music Societies