Recipe: Banoffee Pie
Flawless combination of bananas and homemade toffee — absolutely delicious!
Flawless combination of bananas and homemade toffee — absolutely delicious!
Ingredients for the biscuit base
Butter melted 100 gms
Digestive biscuits crushed 250 gms
Ingredients for the filling
Dark brown sugar 100gms
Bananas 3 whole
Condensed milk 1 tin (397gms)
Butter melted 100 gms
Whipped Cream
Cocoa powder for dusting
Method
1. Mix the biscuit crumbs and butter in a bowl.
2. Line the base of a springform tin with the above mixture using a spoon. Make sure that the mixture is half way up on the sides of the tin in order to make a pie shell.
3. Refrigerate for 10 minutes.
4. Take a non-stick saucepan and add butter and sugar to it. Melt the butter and sugar on low heat, stirring continuously till the sugar has dissolved completely.
5. Now add condensed milk to the butter and sugar mixture and bring to a rapid boil for about a minute. Stir repeatedly until the mixture turns into a thick golden caramel form.
6. Spread the caramel over the biscuit base and refrigerate for another hour till the base is firm and ready to serve.
7. Carefully lift the base off the tin and place it on a serving plate.
8. Slice the bananas and line them on top of the base.
9. Decorate it with whipped cream and finish off by dusting some cocoa powder on top.
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Serves 6 people
Shafia Agha works as a PR consultant and runs a food blog: gobblemywords.wordpress.com. She loves trying out new recipes. Follow her on facebook.com/GobbleMyWords and @shafiaagha
Published in The Express Tribune, Ms T, April 7th, 2013.
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Ingredients for the biscuit base
Butter melted 100 gms
Digestive biscuits crushed 250 gms
Ingredients for the filling
Dark brown sugar 100gms
Bananas 3 whole
Condensed milk 1 tin (397gms)
Butter melted 100 gms
Whipped Cream
Cocoa powder for dusting
Method
1. Mix the biscuit crumbs and butter in a bowl.
2. Line the base of a springform tin with the above mixture using a spoon. Make sure that the mixture is half way up on the sides of the tin in order to make a pie shell.
3. Refrigerate for 10 minutes.
4. Take a non-stick saucepan and add butter and sugar to it. Melt the butter and sugar on low heat, stirring continuously till the sugar has dissolved completely.
5. Now add condensed milk to the butter and sugar mixture and bring to a rapid boil for about a minute. Stir repeatedly until the mixture turns into a thick golden caramel form.
6. Spread the caramel over the biscuit base and refrigerate for another hour till the base is firm and ready to serve.
7. Carefully lift the base off the tin and place it on a serving plate.
8. Slice the bananas and line them on top of the base.
9. Decorate it with whipped cream and finish off by dusting some cocoa powder on top.
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Serves 6 people
Shafia Agha works as a PR consultant and runs a food blog: gobblemywords.wordpress.com. She loves trying out new recipes. Follow her on facebook.com/GobbleMyWords and @shafiaagha
Published in The Express Tribune, Ms T, April 7th, 2013.
Like MsT on Facebook for your dose of girl talk.