'No Ordinary Schoolboy'

Tom Shepherd

Tom Shepherd

13th June 2025
Tom Shepherd

'No Ordinary Schoolboy'

90 min

Dessert which featured on Great British Menu and is now on the menu at Upstairs by Tom Shepherd

Ingredients

banana mousse

  • 100g banana puree
  • 75g milk
  • 65g egg yolk
  • 35g caster sugar
  • 75g cream cheese
  • 125g double cream
  • 1.5 gelatine leaves
  • 100g chocolate coated popping candy

banana dip

  • 300g white chocolate
  • 300g cocoa butter
  • yellow soluble food colouring powder
  • black cocoa butter colouring

banana ice cream

  • 500g banana puree
  • 250g double cream
  • 25g glucose
  • 25g caster sugar
  • 20g dextrose
  • 15g milk powder
  • 4g gellan type F
  • 1 vanilla pod

banana cake

  • 3 bananas
  • 175g caster sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 50g butter unsalted
  • 5g bicarb
  • 175g self-rising flour
  • 1 50ml banana extract/flavouring

granola

  • 55g porridge oats
  • 1.5g cinnamon
  • 1.5g Maldon Sea salt
  • 12g rapeseed oil
  • 25g maple syrup
  • 25g light brown sugar
  • ½ vanilla pod
  • 55g nibbed pecans

plating

  • 1 tin of caramelised condensed milk

Method

banana mousse

Heat the banana puree, milk, egg yolk and sugar in the thermomix to 90c and add the cream cheese and gelatine to cool and set.
Whip banana base with the double cream until soft peaks, fold in the chocolate coated popping candy and pipe into banana moulds, freeze in the blast freezer.

banana ice cream

Place all ingredients into a thermomix and heat up to 98c and freeze in the blast chiller.

banana cake

Cream butter, vanilla, and sugar in a kitchen aid with a k paddle beater, incorporate eggs, then finally add the banana, self-raising flour and bicarb, season with salt and banana extract.
Transfer cake mix to a tray lined with parchment paper and bake at 160c.

granola

Combine all ingredients and mix in a kitchen aid, bake in oven at 160c.

banana dip

Heat cocoa butter to 70 degrees, pour over chocolate, blend with stick blender and yellow colouring to desired colour intensity.
Dip frozen banana in cocoa butter dip mix and let set/defrost.

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