Butterbeer Banana Bread
Serving size: 6-8
Prep Time: 5-20 minutes
Bake Time: 1hr
FREE OF: gluten, dairy, lime, tomato, coconut, seeds, fish, soy, cauliflower, nut, nightshades, berry
Ingredients:
Banana bread mix
Anything the banana bread mix calls for
Dark chocolate hot fudge (recipe)
Butterbeer caramel (recipe below)
Candy corn
Butter or some kind of spray to grease the baking pan
Instructions:
Set oven to 350
Make banana bread mix
Grease bread/baking dish
Place a thin layer of banana bread mix on the bottom of a bread/baking dish
Scoop out chunks of the hot fudge and dollop them throughout the swirl them slightly
Pour in more of the mix and repeat the fudge step until you have filled the baking dish
Push candy corn pieces throughout the top of the mixture
Bake for an hour or until middle is done
Place some candy corn pumpkins on top
Drizzle or coat the bread with the butter beer caramel and on each slice you can drizzle a little on top
Butterbeer Caramel
Ingredients:
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Brown sugar
12 Tbs Vegan butter
1/3 cup Butterbeer
1/2 cup Creamy dairy free milk of choice (used creamy silk almond milk)
Salt
Instructions:
Get a small/medium sauce pan and turn the stove on low/medium
Add the sugars and stir continuously
The sugar should start to clump up and eventually melt
4 When it looks like the color of caramel (see picture) turn stove down to low and add butter
5 Continuously stir with a whisk until we'll combined (get ready for an arm workout)
6 Slightly turn up the heat above low and add the almond milk, butter beer, and salt
7 Stir until well combined and mixture is slightly thick (this may take some time the heat will help)
8 As it cools it will thicken
9 Caramel is tricky and it sucks to waste your time and waste resources so if it's not turning out right there are some hacks you can do to fix it
Hacks:
If you're caramel is too watery....
-keep cooking for a while only on just above low until thickened
Or
-add cornstarch until it reaches the desired consistency
Or
-add corn syrup till it's adiquately thickened
If on the rare chance you're caramel is too thick...
-put on the stove on just above low and add more dairy free milk until well combined
If you have clumps...
-slowly keep cooking till disolved
-strain with a fine strainer
Story Behind the Recipe
It's Halloween and who doesn't LOVE Harry Potter especially around Halloween? Butterbeer Caramel just sounds perfect as a combination. Feast your eyes on this delightful treat!
It may seem like it's gonna be too sweet, but honestly it's perfect so long as you stick to the hot fudge. Very important to balance the flavors. If you get the right banana bread it won't be too sweet either. The only thing that's actually sweet is the caramel and the candy corn. If you're really worried about it though then ditch the first layer of candy corn and only do the candy corn pumpkins on top.
The prep time on this varries because if you decide to make the fudge and the caramel then that's obviously gonna take you longer, but it would only be about 20min in total. It's not that bad. If you wanna make them ahead though that's generally the best way to do it and you'll definitely have left overs still which will be great for ice cream or any dessert.
For a little bit of inspiration be sure to watch the movies while you bake and while you eat! Send us your Harry Potter pictures!
