Banana Bread Cinnamon Scrolls with Honey Caramel Sauce

Upside Down Banana Bread Cinnamon Scrolls with a Honey Caramel and Walnut Sauce.

These delicious scrolls have become an Easter tradition at Branch Creek. Simple to make but they never fail to impress!

[Prep time approx. 3.5 hours including rising time. Cooking time 55 minutes]

We usually prepare the dough in a bread maker for ease but making it by hand works too.

Ingredients:

For the dough:

• 1 cup milk

• 4 Tbsp butter (melted)

• 3 tsp yeast

• 1/3 cup sugar – or use honey, see using honey in baking information here.

• ¼ tsp salt

• 3 ripe bananas (mashed)

• 4 ½ cups flour

• 2 Tbsp oil

• 1 tsp ground cinnamon

For the filling:

• 4 Tbsp butter

• ¼ cup brown sugar

• 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon

For the sauce:

• ½ cup butter

• 1 cup brown sugar

• 1 tsp salt

• 1 tsp vanilla

• ¼ cup honey - use either our creamed or raw honey

• 1 cup walnuts (chopped)

Method:

1. Combine milk and melted butter. Microwave for 45 seconds.

2. Add the yeast, stir and let sit for 10 minutes or until the yeast is bubbly. If the yeast does not bubble you need to repeat this step using different yeast.

3. Add sugar, salt and mashed bananas to the yeast mixture and stir to combine.

4. Begin to add 3 ½ cups of flour, ½ cup at a time, stirring between each addition until a dough forms.

5. Transfer the dough to a flat clean surface and knead for approx. 3 minutes, adding the remaining 1 cup of flour if its sticking to your hands.

6. Form the dough into a ball and put into a bowl, add the oil on top of dough ball. Cover with a tea towel or glad wrap. Leave this to rise for 3 hours.

7. After 2.5 hours, prepare your filling, honey caramel and chop the walnuts.

8. For the filling: add all ingredients to a small bowl and combine well.

9. For the honey caramel: place a small saucepan on medium heat. Add all the ingredients and gently stir until combined, don’t let this burn – the honey will do so easily.

10. On a dry clean bench roll out your dough to around 20x30cm. Add more flour if necessary to prevent it sticking to the bench.

11. Spread the filling evenly over the flat dough and then roll the dough into a log.

12. In a baking dish (approx. 23x30cm) pour the honey caramel sauce in and sprinkle the chopped walnuts over.

13. Cut the dough into approx. 3cm wide scrolls. Place these in the dish on top of the honey caramel sauce.

14. Bake for 15 minutes at 100 degrees before baking for a further 40 minutes at 180 degrees.

15. Once done, flip the dish into another to create your Upside down banana bread cinnamon scrolls. Enjoy!

Note: if you are making the dough in the breadmaker, complete steps one and two and then add all ingredients, including 4 ½ cups of flour and the oil to the breadmaker and set to the dough cycle