Banoffee Pie Recipe
Homemade banoffee pie – this easy recipe combines easy biscuit crust, caramel, bananas, whipped cream and chocolate shavings. If you have never tried banoffee pie this the time to try something new.
Banoffee Pie Recipe
Ingredients
For the pie base:
- 200 g 7oz digestive biscuits/crackers
- 7 tablespoons 100g butter, melted
For the filling:
- 3 ripe Bananas sliced
- 400 g 14oz dulce de leche
For the topping:
- 1½ cups 360ml Heavy cream, cold
- 3 tablespoons Powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- Chocolate shavings for garnish
Instructions
- DIRECTIONS1. Preheat oven to 350F (175C). 2. In a food processor or a Ziploc bag crush the biscuits into fine crumbs. Add melted butter and pulse until combined. Press into bottom and sides of 9-inch (23cm) pie/tart pan. Bake for 5-7 minutes. remove from the oven and allow to cool 3. Spread dulce de leche on top of the crust. Arrange banana slices in 1-2 layers on top of the dulce de leche. 4. In a large bowl place cold heavy cream, powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Whip to medium peaks. 5. Spread whipped cream on top of the bananas. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. 6. Before serving garnish with chocolate shavings. Notes:
- If you don’t have dulce de leche, you can make it at home: place a can of sweetened condensed milk a pot of boiling water, making sure the whole can cover with water all the time, boil for 2 hours, then let cool.
Looking forward to making this. I learned to cook/bake on a wood burning stove back in the late 1940’s. The devices we have today, make cooking a much easier art form.