Banoffee Pie! – Jane’s Patisserie

A scrumptious and simple no-bake banoffee pie! A scrumptious basic of a biscuit base, caramel, banana, cream and extra! 

So… everyone knows this basic magnificence proper?! A banoffee pie might be one of the crucial well-known desserts that exists! It’s a cult basic alongside aspect the concepts of sticky toffee pudding, Eton mess and so forth! And right here I’m with my model. 

Base

The bottom of one thing reminiscent of a banoffee pie is tremendous simple and the identical as a variety of my no-bake cheesecakes, and no-bake tarts! All it consists of is biscuit and butter – it truly is that simple!

I have a tendency to make use of digestives as I am keen on the flavour, they usually just about are the basic biscuit to make use of for a banoffee pie. I exploit a meals processor to blitz my biscuits to an excellent positive crumb, however you should utilize a bag or bowl with a rolling pin. You simply have to make it possible for they’re tremendous positive!

I add melted butter to my blitzed biscuits to make a moist sand like texture – that is the way you get bind. Press this combination into the edges and base of a free backside tin and you’ve got the bottom accomplished! 

Caramel

It’s a lot simpler in life to only us a pre-made caramel, I’m not going to misinform you. I do know I do know, you can also make it your self – and if you wish to, this scrumptious do-it-yourself caramel recipe might be your finest wager! 

As it is a scrumptious no-bake dessert, it’s typically summer season when it’s made, I attempt to scale back the trouble as a lot as attainable – and this does typically include utilizing tinned caramel. You should utilize something actually, but it surely’s a basic! 

When you wished to jazz this up somewhat you may use somewhat salt added to the caramel to make it much more scrumptious – or in the event you don’t like caramel, go additional away from banoffee to create one thing scrumptious with a chocolate sauce as a substitute?!

Banana

So, if in case you have adopted me for a when you know I don’t eat banana (take away it and you’ve got a caramel pie virtually which I’m 100% right here for anyway) but it surely’s simply sliced banana. 

Generally, sure, the banana will go somewhat brown however that’s regular – it nonetheless tastes scrumptious for many who like it. My trusty style testers are huge followers of a basic, and after my banoffee cheesecake, it was at all times going to go down nicely! 

Cream

The cream on a banoffee pie is straight ahead, identical to the entire different elements of this scrumptious basic. I exploit double cream because it’s a basic cream to whip up right here within the UK, however you should utilize whipping cream, heavy cream, or no matter cream you may have!

I add somewhat icing sugar to the cream as I whip it to stabilise the cream and in addition give it a little bit of sweetness. You can even add in vanilla extract in the event you fancy. 

I discover it’s finest to just below whip the cream as if the peaks are too stiff, it’ll begin to solidify and separate considerably as you adorn the banoffee pie. 

Ideas & Tips

I simply use a small quantity of chocolate curls to embellish my banoffee pie, however that is utterly non-obligatory. I discover it appears cute, it offers somewhat trace of chocolate as you chunk and nicely yeah… chocolate at all times wins. 

It actually actually is finest to make use of a free bottomed tin for a bake like this. When you don’t have one although, you should utilize a cake tin – you’ll simply have to put the biscuit base up the edges of the tin considerably to comprise the caramel! 

Biscuit Crust

• 300 g Digestives
• 150 g Unsalted Butter (melted)

Filling

• 375 g Caramel
• 2-3 Massive Bananas (sliced 1cm)

Topping

• 450 ml Double Cream
• 50 g Icing Sugar
• 25 g Chocolate curls

For the Biscuit

• Utilizing a meals processor, blitz the entire biscuits to a positive crumb and blend within the melted butter.

• Press this into the edges and base of a 23cm/9″ free bottomed tart tin. 

For the Filling

• Pour the caramel onto the biscuit base and clean over

• Slice your banana into 1cm items, and push them into the caramel.

For the Topping

• Whip the double cream, with the icing sugar to comfortable peaks.

• Pipe or unfold excessive of the cheesecake!

• Sprinkle over some chocolate curls.

• This recipe will final for 3 days within the fridge!
• You should utilize any do-it-yourself caramel, prepared made caramel, or salted caramel and so forth!! 
• I used two giant bananas, however you simply need sufficient to create one layer of banana – you may in fact add extra banana.
• You can also make the bottom chocolate flavoured by including 25g of cocoa powder to the biscuit crust when mixing collectively!
• I used this tart tin on this recipe!

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