How to Make Banoffee Pie

Serves: 6-8

Preparation time: 2 hours

Cooking time: 30 mins

Ingredients needed to make Banoffee Pie:

For the caramel:

• 14 fl oz can condensed milk
• 3 ½ oz caster sugar
• 3 ½ oz unsalted butter

For the pie:

• 3 large bananas, chopped
• 8 oz pecans, halved
• 5 oz digestive biscuits, crushed
• 10 ½ oz double cream
• 3 oz butter, melted
• Cocoa powder, for dusting

For the caramel sauce:

• 4 fl oz coconut milk
• 4 oz soft light brown sugar
• 4 oz unsalted butter

Cooking instructions for Banoffee Pie:

• To make the caramel, melt the butter in a saucepan and add the sugar.
• Heat the mixture over slow flame, while stirring at times, until the sugar dissolves.
• Stir in the condensed milk and heat the mixture until it begins to boil, while stirring constantly.
• Remove the pan from heat as soon as it thickens and gives out the smell of a caramel; set aside to cool.
• To make the pie, toss half of the pecans and crushed  biscuits together into a bowl and add a knob of butter to it; stir them all together and set aside.
• Tip the contents into the bowl into a 10’’ cake mould and press the surface firmly to level the surface.
• Stir the chopped bananas into the caramel and stir them well together.
• Transfer the mixture on top of the biscuit base and spread them across the first layer.
• Place the pie in the refrigerator for half an hour to chill and set.
• Whip the double cream rigorously until they form soft peaks and spoon it onto the caramel-banana mixture.
• Spread it evenly across the surface of the banoffee layer.
• Arrange rest of the pecans on top of the whipped cream layer, in a circle, and dust the surface evenly with cocoa powder.
• To make the caramel sauce, melt butter in a heavy bottomed pan over moderate heat and pour in the coconut milk.
• Add the sugar and stir it until it dissolves while you heat the mixture until it begins to boil.
• Continue to cook the mixture for about 3-4 minutes or until they form a light and thick golden brown caramel syrup.
• Carve out thick slices of the banofee pie and serve them on dessert plates.
• Drizzle the caramel sauce over them and serve chilled.

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