As the wife of any service officer will tell you, we are often required to cook up food for an impromptu get-together of friends/acquaintances who happen to be passing through base. This pie goes down as one of my favourite desserts to make as the most important ingredient the 'toffee' can be made months in advance and stored. And when you bring out the dessert, the hungry horde of bachelors/ officers can barely believe you made it at such short notice.
Another feather to the fabled hat never hurt!
Banoffee Pie or Banana Toffee Pie is a decadent dessert made out of Bananas, Toffee and cream. The humble banana is transformed into this delicacy of exquisite sweetness from the Toffee. The toffee is a short cut recipe to be made from condensed milk. So here goes -
Pie base
Blitz marie biscuits to fine powder consistency. To 150 gms of the powder add 1/4 cup fresh cream and 30 gms melted butter. Mix this with your finger tips. Butter the base of a pie dish / ramekin and pat the mixture on the base and on the sides. The thickness of the base is as you require, we prefer to have about 3-5 mm of thickness. Keep aside.
Pie Filling
To make the toffee - take a tin of condensed milk. Do not open it. Put it in a rice cooker or steamer or a pan of water (remember to remove the plastic items on the tin so that it does not melt in your pot). Cook the tin for about 40 minutes. What you get is a brown thick toffee. (you can eat this by itself as well)
TIP - While you are at it, I suggest you cook 3-4 tins of condensed milk (to save gas / electricity). Now you can store these toffee tins (without opening it) for a good 6-7 months. Open it when required and you have nice toffee.
Take your pie base and spread a layer of toffee over the pie base(thickness depending on how sweet you want your dessert). Now slice bananas and arrange all over the toffee layer. If you like your dessert really sweet, top this with another layer of toffee (it becomes sickeningly sweet but the choice is yours). Top it with whipped cream, decorate with chocolate shavings or decorations or some dry fruits / sliced bananas.
Refrigerate and your dessert is ready. Simple isnt it?
Another feather to the fabled hat never hurt!
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Pie base
Blitz marie biscuits to fine powder consistency. To 150 gms of the powder add 1/4 cup fresh cream and 30 gms melted butter. Mix this with your finger tips. Butter the base of a pie dish / ramekin and pat the mixture on the base and on the sides. The thickness of the base is as you require, we prefer to have about 3-5 mm of thickness. Keep aside.
Pie Filling
To make the toffee - take a tin of condensed milk. Do not open it. Put it in a rice cooker or steamer or a pan of water (remember to remove the plastic items on the tin so that it does not melt in your pot). Cook the tin for about 40 minutes. What you get is a brown thick toffee. (you can eat this by itself as well)TIP - While you are at it, I suggest you cook 3-4 tins of condensed milk (to save gas / electricity). Now you can store these toffee tins (without opening it) for a good 6-7 months. Open it when required and you have nice toffee.
Take your pie base and spread a layer of toffee over the pie base(thickness depending on how sweet you want your dessert). Now slice bananas and arrange all over the toffee layer. If you like your dessert really sweet, top this with another layer of toffee (it becomes sickeningly sweet but the choice is yours). Top it with whipped cream, decorate with chocolate shavings or decorations or some dry fruits / sliced bananas.
Refrigerate and your dessert is ready. Simple isnt it?
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