Recipe | Banoffee pie

This sweet and sticky pud is a welcome end to any meal. Find the rest of this fair trade menu in our February issue

Serves 4-6

300g chocolate Hobnobs
160g butter, melted
397g tin Carnation caramel
2 large ripe bananas (Fairtrade), finely sliced
300ml double cream, whipped
70% cocoa dark chocolate shavings (Sainsbury’s Santo Domingo Organic Fairtrade chocolate)

1 Add the Hobnobs and butter to a food processor and pulse until you have fine breadcrumbs. Tip into a fluted loose-bottomed tin and press the mixture in firmly and evenly.
2 Chill in the fridge for 1 hr, then top with the caramel and a layer of bananas. Return to the fridge and, when ready to serve, pipe or spoon on the cream and serve sprinkled with the chocolate shavings.

This recipe is the pudding from our ‘gathering’ menu, Fare Trade, in our February issue, a dinner menu for friends that makes the most of fair-trade products. Fair-trade Fortnight begins on 24 February. Hurrah for good food that’s good for everyone!

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The faces of Fairtrade

It’s Fairtrade Fortnight from 26 February, a time to reflect on how you could do more to support growers, farmers and producers in developing countries.

The message for this year’s campaign is “come on in”, encouraging people to open their doors and minds to Fairtrade. Women produce 80% of the world’s food and Fairtrade acts to ensure female farmers get the same opportunities and rights as their male counterparts.

Ivania Calderón Peralta is a single mother of five and organic coffee farmer in Nicaragua who works for a cooperative that supplies beans to Café Direct. “Before, women didn’t have the freedom to participate in the decision-making processes,” she says. “Now, we have managerial responsibilities and different roles and, thanks to training funded by Faitrade, women can make progress.” The work of the foundation spans industries from food to fashion to technology. The first Fairtrade African Gold from Uganda launched in the UK last year and food products bearing the Fairtrade logo are being introduced all the time. 

Find out more about Fairtrade Fortnight at fairtrade.org.uk.

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