If I’m baking for a crowd over the bank holiday weekend, choosing something fun and a bit over the top seems the only way to go. Enter the hazelnut banoffee cake. It’s everything you love in the classic dessert: banana, toffee sauce, fluffy whipped cream and shaved chocolate, but with added nuttiness and overall less sickly sweet.Hazelnut banoffee cakePrep 10 min
Cook 1 hr
Serves 12-16For the cake100g whole blanched hazelnuts
180g dark brown sugar
3 large eggs200g very ripe bananas (about 2 medium bananas), peeled and mashed150g unsalted butter, melted145g plain flour
