• These creamy and delicately flavoured fruits don’t get enough credit. Apart from the occasional ice cream split, when do you ever see bananas used really well in a dessert? This warm upside-down banana cake is a game changer. Fruity, sticky and golden. If you loved this warm upside-down banana cake, then you will definitely enjoy these recipes (take our word for it): Peppermint Crisp fridge tart (one of your all-time favourites) Mini chocolate sponges with coffee meringue icing (because you can never go wrong with chocolate and coffee) Chocolate malva pudding (a traditional South African dessert with a delicious, chocolatey…

    Serves 1 Chill a beer glass until frosty. Dip the rim of the glass in beaten egg white and dip into coarse salt. Sprinkle some salt in the bottom of the glass and add the juice of one juicy lime. Half-fill the glass with ice and top up with a light-style beer like Corona.

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