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Pie, Banoffee

Banoffee pie is a British dessert pie made from bananas, whipped cream, and a thick caramel sauce (made from boiled condensed milk or milk jam), combined either on a pastry case or one made from crumbled biscuits and butter. Some versions of the recipe include chocolate, coffee, or both. The dessert's name, sometimes spelled "banoffi", is a portmanteau combining the words banana and toffee. A layer of toffee bits (bagged by Heath is good) really takes this dessert up a notch. If you can’t find them though don’t worry you can leave them out.

British · Desserts · Pie

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Pie, Banoffee
Prep 25 minutes
Cook 8 minutes
Serves Servings 8

Banoffee pie is a British dessert pie made from bananas, whipped cream, and a thick caramel sauce (made from boiled condensed milk or milk jam), combined either on a pastry case or one made from crumbled biscuits and butter. Some versions of the recipe include chocolate, coffee, or both.

The dessert’s name, sometimes spelled “banoffi”, is a portmanteau combining the words banana and toffee.

A layer of toffee bits (bagged by Heath is good) really takes this dessert up a notch. If you can’t find them though don’t worry you can leave them out.

Ingredients

  • Crust (You can also use a biscoff crust - [recipe:Pie Crust, Biscoff]):
  • 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
  • 10 Tbsp. unsalted butter melted

¼ cup brown sugar

  • 1 pinch kosher salt (unless using salted butter)

Filling

  • 2 cups dulce de leche divided (or make your own - [recipe:Dulce De Leche])
  • 3 bananas sliced, plus additional, for garnish
  • ½ cup toffee bits plus additional, for garnish

Topping

  • 1 pint heavy whipping cream
  • 3 Tbsp. granulated sugar
  • ½ tsp. vanilla extract

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.

The crust

  1. In a medium bowl, stir together graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, brown sugar, and salt.
  2. Firmly press mixture into the bottom and up the sides of a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate.
  3. Bake until lightly set, about 8 minutes. Set aside.
  4. The pie:

Pour 1½ cups dulce de leche into bottom of crust.

  1. Top with bananas, arranging in concentric circles, overlapping slightly.
  2. Make sure the bananas are completely covered in the filling to stop them from turning brown.
  3. Sprinkle with ½ cup toffee bits; drizzle with ¼ cup dulce de leche.

The topping

  1. Using a stand mixer or hand mixer, beat cream and 3 Tbsp. sugar at medium high speed until soft peaks form. Stir in vanilla.

Spoon whipped cream over banana layer.

  1. Drop teaspoons of dulce de leche over whipped cream layer; swirl using the back of a spoon.
  2. Cool:

Refrigerate 30 minutes to 3 hours.

  1. Garnish with any combination of toffee bits, banana slices, shaved chocolate

Notes

What Is Dulce de Leche?

Dulce de leche is similar to caramel, but a little sweeter and creamier. It’s prepared by slowly heating sugar and milk until everything caramelizes. If we’re getting all scientific, a lot of the flavor comes from the Maillard reaction. Dulce de leche is Spanish for candy made/of milk. There are a few ways to prepare dulce de leche [recipe:Dulce De Leche]