Banana Nut Bourbon Cake
With Crème Anglaise

Ingredients 

Direction

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Place nuts, raisins and apricots into a mixing bowl with a half cup of flour and coat evenly.

Combine remaining flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg together and sift.

Combine butter and sugar and beat until light and fluffy then add bananas whip into butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, and whip into mixture well each time.

Fold in sifted flour and bourbon adding a little of each until well incorporated.

Gently blend in nuts, raisins and apricots then pour into a 10" tube pan, do not oil.

Bake for about an hour and fifteen minutes.

Crème Anglaise

Ingredients

Direction

Heat cream and sugar until sugar is dissolved then remove from heat.

Whip egg yolks together then add about 1/3 of heated cream and sugar together then mix the entire mixture back into the heated cream and sugar.

Heat slowly stirring constantly until thickened. DO NOT LET MIXTURE BOIL. You won't be happy.

Add in syrup and let cool.

1/4 cup Bourbon or other liquor may be added along with the syrup if desired.

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