Popcorn never fails to add a playful, Willy Wonka-like note to a dish. But it’s more than just a bit of fun here, as it adds a welcome crunch with the slightest hint of salt to the sweet chocolate mousse and caramel sauce. This is a great assemble-it-yourself recipe for children.
Author: chefalice
Taking its name from the ubiquitous Banoffee Pie, which has a biscuit base topped with banana slices, toffee (or boiled condensed milk) and heaps of whipped cream, this ice cream is always a winner with children. Delicious vanilla ice cream with ripples of boiled condensed milk, crunchy biscuits and caramelised bananas; too good not to be shared with the adults!
Kunafeh pastry looks like shredded wheat or fine vermicelli and it is sold in 450 g (1 lb) packets under the name of kadayifi fila. Kadayifi is the Greek name of this sweet – in Turkish it is known as Tel-kadayif, but both are misnomers derived from the Arab word for pancake ataif. In most Middle Eastern households even today kunafeh pastry is still made at home by the time-honoured process of passing a batter of flour and water through a brass-plated sieve on to a hot metal sheet. The dough sets in seconds and the shredded pastry is swept…