Banana Ice cream with Peanuts Brittle

Ingredients

• 1 Banana
• 2 cups of vanilla ice cream
• 1/4 cup of salted peanuts
• 1/2 cup of sugar

1. Sit the ice cream out at room temperature for a few minutes to soften it.
2. Add the sugar to a saucepan and put over medium low heat.
3. While the saucepan is heating up, peel and mash the banana into a paste with a potato masher or similar utensil, make sure there are no lumps!
4. Combine the banana paste well with the ice cream in a mixing bowl and put it back into the freezer.
5. Line a flat tray with baking paper or greased with butter.
   
6. Keep mixing the sugar in the saucepan with a wooden spoon, keep a close eye on it as it burns easily if you don’t keep stirring it!
7. Once the sugar has completely dissolved into a thick brown toffee mix, let it come to a simmer for one minute.
8. Add the peanuts to the sugar brittle and pour on to the baking paper in a thin and even streams. Not too thick otherwise you will break your teeth trying to eat it.