Hummingbird Cake

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Prep: 20 mins | Cooking time: 45 mins | Serves: 12

Ingredients

1 ½ cups EQUAL SPOONFUL
90g butter or margarine, melted
2 eggs
2 ripe bananas, mashed
450g pineapple pieces in natural juice, drained
1/3 cup roughly chopped walnuts
2 cups self-raising flour
1 cup low-fat milk

SALTED CARAMEL SAUCE
125g butter, chopped
¼ cup EQUAL SPOONFUL
1 heaped Tbsp. Golden Syrup
150mL thickened cream
Pinch of sea-salt flakes

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C. Grease a 22cm spring-form tin, line base and sides with baking paper.

2. Combine the EQUAL, butter and eggs in a large bowl, whisk until smooth. Stir in the banana, pineapple and walnuts.

3. Stir in half the flour and half the milk, then stir in remaining flour and milk. Spread into the prepared tin and bake for 40 minutes or until firm in the centre. Stand 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.