I used to work in a restaurant back when I lived in London and that’s were I fell in love with banoffee pie.
Banoffee comes from banana and toffee and that’s pretty much all it takes to make it. Simple and delicious! I had tried a different recipe before but to make the caramel I had to boil the sweetened milk in the can for 3(!) hours! I don’t know about you but to me, that seems like a lot of time and electricity to waste on dessert. So a few months later I came across this recipe and with this one you make the caramel in under 5 minutes!
My version doesn’t look like much but it tasted great!
So here it is:
Classic Banoffee Pie
Ingredients
For the base:
- 100g butter, melted
- 250g digestive biscuits, crushed
For the caramel:
- 100g butter
- 100g dark brown soft sugar
- 397g can Condensed Sweetened Milk
For the top:
- 4 small bananas
- 300ml carton whipping cream, lightly whipped
- grated chocolate
1. Tip the biscuit crumbs into a bowl. Add the
butter and mix in. Spoon the crumbs into the base
and about halfway up the sides of the tin to make a
pie shell. Chill for 10 minutes.
2. Melt the butter and sugar into a non-stick
saucepan over a low heat, stirring all the time until
the sugar has dissolved. Add the condensed milk
and bring to a rapid boil for about a minute,
stirring all the time for a thick golden caramel.
Spread the caramel over the base, cool and then
chill for about 1 hour, until firm or until ready to
serve.
3. Carefully lift the pie from the tin and place on a
serving plate. Slice the bananas; Arrange on the caramel and top with the whipped cream. Grate some chocolate on top and you’re done!
See you soon!
