Banoffee Pie
photo by Tinkerbell
- Ready In:
- 5hrs 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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2 pies
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 2 large graham cracker pie crust
- 3 (1020.58 g) can sweetened condensed milk
- 3 large bananas, very ripe
- 473.19 ml heavy cream
- 4.92 ml vanilla extract
- 118.29 ml sugar
- 14.79 ml instant coffee crystals
- 59.16 ml grated semisweet chocolate
directions
- Place cans of condensed milk in lg. saucepan and cover with water 3/4's up the cans. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer, cover, and simmer for 4 hours, replacing water as necessary.(Milk inside cans will turn to toffee). Remove from pan and allow to cool.
- Cut bananas in 1/2-inch slices and cover bottom of crusts.
- Spread cooled toffee over bananas.
- Add another layer of bananas.
- Whip heavy cream until it turns into whipped cream. Add vanilla extract, sugar & coffee crystals. Stir until well blended.
- Heap whipped cream mixture on top of bananas.
- Sprinkle grated chocolate on top of whipped cream.
- Put in refrigerator for 1-2 hours to chill.
- Enjoy!
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Reviews
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Oh, there's a story for this one. First, I chose this recipe because Banofee Pie is mentioned in a movie that I love ("Love Actually"), & I always wondered what it was. After reading the ingredient list I was delighted! Afterall, how bad can bananas, toffee & whipped cream go?! Well, my family is convinced that this is indeed a fireman's recipe because I nearly ended up with the local department knocking at my door! After boiling the cans of sweetened condensed milk for about 2 hours, I needed to add water. I added water (no problem there, I'm good at that.), then turned up the heat to bring it back to a boil. In the meantime I realized I needed to get ready to start my PAC Hosting shift. An hour & a half later, with my toddler sleeping in my lap while I hosted, I heard 6 very loud "BANG!"s from the kitchen. As we ran to the kitchen I could smell something burning, the pot on the stove was making an evil hissing sound & when I reached it I could see the three cans were puffed out on both ends into big barrel shapes & the pot was bone dry! Ugh. My best dutch oven (Breast Cancer Pink edition - only replaceable by buying the whole set again), has 3 large black circles in the bottom. Hmm, too bad they don't look like the face of Elvis... Well, it wasn't enough to make me give up now, 3-3/4 hours into it. So, I cooled the cans & spent a good 30 minutes trying to get them open. One can was impossible to crack, but I did manage to get the other two open enough to scoop out the non-blackened toffee parts (mostly just the middle areas) & decided that I'd use what I had & just make one pie instead of two. I left the amounts of everything else the same as is written. Luckily, my family & a friend we'd invited for dinner have a whole lot of faith in my cooking & were game to try the finished product. I didn't have much hope & figured I'd be making it again before reviewing it, but everyone loved it. Couldn't taste any burnt taste, loved the bananas & the toffee together, & loved the instant coffee (French Vanilla Cafe) flavored whipped cream. We'll be making this again & will probably double the bananas again too. I'm only posting the whole pie photo, as the cut piece looks like a whip cream pie at a pie throwing contest, with the double cream & all. Thanks for sharing your recipe, Ladderman! Made, learned from, enjoyed & reviewed for Pick-A-Chef Spring 2008.
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I've made this several times now, and it is always delicious. I have tried a couple of variations. The most recent being using prepared caramel. I live in Texas, and can buy "Cajeta" right off the shelf. I was afraid it wouldn't be as good as doing it myself, but I was worried for nothing. It's wonderful; tastes great. So that's my helpful hint. Thanks for sharing this recipe! It's a keeper.
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