I love trying new things. Especially when they turn out to be awesome! Banoffee Pie, short for Banana-Toffee Pie, is a recipe that caught my attention a while back for my must try list. I mean come on, what’s not to like, right? Then along came Lina of Lin’s Recipes. She hosts recipe challenges for bloggers who’d like to participate in creating a themed list of dishes. This time around it was for “Cakes we have to try this Feb,” a collection of unusually named cakes/desserts that she gathered. Well, that struck a chord with me too. (The combined excitement was almost too much to contain.) This pie is sweet and creamy, luscious with an almost candy like crust. And if I may suggest: you should put this on your list.
As found in PIES delicious recipes for perfect pies:
Serves 4
Filling
generous 3 1/2 cups canned sweetened condensed milk (I used 2 – 14 oz cans)
4 ripe bananas
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups heavy cream, whipped
2 3/4 oz/75 g semisweet chocolate, grated
Cookie Crust
3 oz/85 g butter, melted, plus extra for greasing
5 1/2 oz/150 g graham crackers, crushed into crumbs
scant 1/3 cup shelled almonds, toasted and ground
scant 1/3 cup shelled hazelnuts, toasted and ground
Place the unopened cans of milk in a large pan and add enough water to cover them. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and let simmer for 2 hours, topping up the water level to keep the cans covered. Carefully lift out the hot cans from the pan and let cool.
Preheat the oven to 350°F/180°C. Grease a 9 inch/23-cm tart pan with butter. Place the remaining butter in a bowl and add the crushed graham crackers and ground nuts. Mix together well, then press the mixture evenly into the base and side of the tart pan. Bake for 10-12 minutes, then remove from the oven and let cool.
Peel and slice the bananas and place in a bowl. Squeeze over the juice from the lemon, add the vanilla extract, and mix together. Spread the banana mixture over the cookie crust in the pan, then spoon the contents of the cooled cans of condensed milk over the bananas. Sprinkle over 1 3/4 oz/50 g of the chocolate then top with a layer of whipped cream. Sprinkle over the remaining grated chocolate and serve the pie at room temperature.
On my list !!!
Sounds awesome 🙂 I have never made a banoffee pie 🙂
It’s really delicious! And very easy, the hardest part is making sure to plan 2 hours to boil the condensed milk! (not hard at all really 😉 )
Wooooow so tempting and gorgeous dear Sadie :*
Thank you Linda 🙂
Omg ! What wonderful pictures and detailed instructions! Thanks a lot for participating! Atb! I’m feeling so hungry after seeing this!
Thanks Lina! I had so much fun making (and eating) it!
That’s amazing
One of my favourites
I can understand that! ?
I ❤️ Pie! Looks and sounds delicious!! I’ve never seen a recipe where you boil the cans like that…you’re teaching me so many new things! ?
I’ve only done it one other time. I usually make my caramel sauce from scratch. It turns the milk into a very thick (and tasty) caramel goo!
This looks fabulous!!!!!!
Thanks Natascha!
Woweee that looks insanely delicious and decadent!
Thanks KR, it really was!
Complete delicious-ness and definitely on my list!! 😀
Lol! Glad to hear it! ? The only thing I would do differently is sweeten the whipped cream a little. 🙂
I’ll make a note on the whipped cream. 😉 Totes yumm!
OMG, this looks wonderful – bananas are my favorite and add the rest and you got me hooked on this pie. 🙂
Thank you Terry 🙂 It was an instant favorite!
Just gorgeous Sadie, I’ll bet it was polished in no time 🙂
Yes it was! 😉
So delicious!
Wow, it looks amazing Sadie!
Thanks Antonia! It was really good 🙂
Oh my! This pie!!! It looks amazing… bananas, toffee, nuts in the crust. It doesn’t get any better. ?
Thanks Jean. I figured I had nothing to lose, and everything to gain 😉
This looks incredible! I’ve been wanting to try banoffee pie for awhile now!
Thanks Katie ? I think you should!
This sounds very good and very different! I saw that you picked this from the list and wondered what it was! Yumm
It’s delicious Lynn! Thank you 🙂
very interesting pie! I had never heard of it! Fun challenge!
Yes it was!
hubba hubba! I would be in hog heaven with a slice of this gorge pie.
Lol! It’s good alright!
Damn girl.. you always make me hungry! I soooo want to have this right now 😀
Lol, thank you!
Hey I’ve made The post to link in the recipes! Add yours in so that everyone else can view it too☺
Thanks Lina I added the link to the comments… I hope that’s what you meant!
No no there is an inlinkz thing in the post! I would mentioned in the post just check it
Thank you for your patience Lina! 🙂
No problem ☺
Whoa! Two hours? That was long. But I am sure the waiting and all is worth it. I bet it gave yo lovely texture and taste as well. By looking at this pie, I feel that I’d want to take it off my screen. 😀 Thank you so much for participating, Sadie. I am glad you enjoyed making this and eating ’em, too. 😀
Thanks Juhls, yes it’s definitely a plan ahead dessert… but worth it!