Banana Souffle

Tom De Keyser

Tom De Keyser

2nd January 2025
Tom De Keyser

Banana Souffle

120 min

Signature dessert at two Michelin-starred pub The Hand & Flowers

Ingredients

banana panard

  • banana purée
  • banana flavour drops
  • corn flour
  • egg whites
  • sugar

banana fan

  • banana
  • sugar
  • glucose

vanilla custard ice cream

  • milk
  • custard powder
  • vanilla
  • glucose
  • stabiliser
  • eggs
  • sugar
  • cream

milk chocolate & Plantation Original dark sauce

  • butter
  • chocolate
  • cream
  • sugar
  • honey
  • cocoa powder
  • dark rum

chocolate soil

  • sugar
  • cocoa powder
  • salt
  • flour
  • butter

Method

banana panard

Banana purée is reduced and then mixed with banana flavour drops and then thickened with corn flour. Egg whites are mixed with sugar and then folded into the panard.

banana fan

Banana is thinly sliced placed into a shape of a fan. A caramel is made (Equal parts sugar and glucose), cooled and blended into a powder and dusted on top of the fan, before being blowtorched.

vanilla custard ice cream

Milk, custard powder, vanilla, glucose and stabiliser are bought to the boil and then poured over eggs and sugar before being finished off with cream.

milk chocolate & Plantation Original dark sauce

Butter and chocolate have been mixed before being added to cream, sugar, honey, chocolate and cocoa powder which has been heated in a pan. This is all finished with plantation original dark rum.

chocolate soil

Chocolate soil (sugar, cocoa powder, salt, flour and butter are mixed in a bowl, this is then dried out in the oven).

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