Help - make a toffee sauce without cream?

Paulie'sGirl

Hi all,

I've spent half an hour searching and can't find the help I need - so I thought I'd ask directly.

We have guests arriving at 6.30 for a BBQ. We'd planned to serve bananas for pud with a toffee / butchscotch / caramel sauce. Alas, we have no cream.

Is there any way to make a sauce like this for icecream without cream or condensed milk?

I have butter and various kinds of dark sugar. Can I just melt the two together and serve it?

Thanks in advance

(please do merge if I've blondely overlooked the perfect thread for this!)

PGxx

newlywed

There's a vegan recipe here that uses soya milk - presume you could just use cows milk too? but not tried it http://jeenaskitchen.blogspot.com/2008/12/dairy-free-vegan-toffee-sauce-recipe.html

floyd

There is one that uses coconut milk if you have any of that http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/banoffeepiewithpecan_86926.shtml

lynzpower

There is a slimming world "baked bananas" recipe that I made the other week and it was Very good and owuld be even better on the BBQ

MIx low fat spread/ marg or lets face it BUTTER!!
with cinnamon and brown sugar

To make a thick sticky sweet butter

Slice the banana- in its skin- length wise - and wack in some of the butter mix

Then wrap in foil and throw in the oven or on a BBQ/ Chiminea etc

In an oven at 200 I did them for 5 mins.

A gorgeous rich oozing quality of these, even with LF spread they tasted v rich and naughty. This with a blob of clotted or double cream or vanilla Ice cream would be GREAT

Slimming worlder can serve with a bit of low fat yoghurt!

Paulie'sGirl

Hi All,

Thanks so much for the suggestions. I have semi-skimmed and coconut milk in, I'll have a go!

I do love OSers, they know everything!!!

PGxx

Paulie'sGirl

Hi all,

Just an update. I found a tin of evaporated milk, and so fiddled with a recipe I found online to make the sauce. One of my guests commented that it tasted "just like Werthers Originals", and I happen to agree! :j

Recipe:

50g butter (I used slightly salted as that's all I had)
150g golden syrup
80g dark soft brown sugar
70g granulated sugar (recipe called for 150g light soft brown sugar, but I didn't have any, so I .. ummm... improvised!:o)
170ml evaporated milk (this is the figure in the recipe, I used two soup ladles from a 410g tin, which I reckoned to be approximate:p)

Melt the butter, sugar and syrup together in a deep pan over a low heat. Once it melts stop stirring and just swirl the pan. Allow to boil gently for 3-5 mins (I did 4, split the difference!), take off the heat. At this point I added a cap of vanilla extract, and then slowly dripped in the evap at arms length (it bubbles like crazy:eek:) whilst whisking to disperse the bubbles and prevent overspill.

This mix made enough for 6 greedy portions with some left over.

Remember boiling sugar is super hot and gives nasty burns.

Thanks to all for their help earlier.

PGxx