
Ingredients:
• For the banoffee pie base:
• 100 gms – Butter
• 150 gms – Digestive biscuits, crushed
• For the caramel:
• 175 gms – Butter
• 75 gms – Castor Sugar
• 400 gms – Condensed Milk can
• For the topping:
• 4 nos – Small Bananas
• 250 ml – Double cream, lightly whipped
• Cocoa powder for dusting
• Loose bottomed cake tin, greased with the based lined 20 cm
• 1 – Piping bag
Method:
- Use a food processor or rolling pin to crush the biscuits into fine crumbs.
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan and stir in the crushed biscuits until the two blend together.
- Press the mixture into the base and sides of a 20cm (8in) loose bottomed cake tin.
- Chill for 30 mins.
- For the caramel, melt the butter and sugar over a low heat until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is golden in colour.
- Add the condensed milk, stirring continuously and bringing to the boil.
- Keep the caramel boiling steadily for 2 mins, while stirring to make a thick golden caramel.
- Take the caramel off the heat and cool.
- Slice the banana and arrange most of them over the biscuit base then spread the caramel over the top.
- Chill for 30 minutes, or until firm.
- When ready to serve, remove the pie from the tin and place on a serving plate.
- Fill a piping bag with the whipped cream and squeeze onto the banoffee pie.
- Decorating as desired with the remaining bananas and a light dusting of cocoa powder.