Sunday Bakes: Banoffee Pie

Who else has the post Great British Bake off blues and, like me, your Tuesdays seem a little bare now and you're missing your weekly sweet fix? If so, this recipe may be the answer to all your baking prayers. You definitely don't need the baking talents of Mary Berry to whip up this dessert, I'm pretty sure even my Dad could make this and he's prone to burning pizza, but the result is luxurious and very, very tasty. In fact, there is no baking involved in this recipe at all, you just need some simple arrangement skills.

Ingredients:
450g Dulce de Leche Original (although I couldn't find this in store so used salted caramel which worked just as well)
20 Digestive biscuits
100g unsalted butter
3 large bananas
300ml double cream
A little bar of dark chocolate

 

1. Place your 20 biscuits into a sealed bag and crush them with a rolling pin (or wooden spoon) until they're roughly crumbed.

2. Empty your crumbs into a bowl and melt the butter. Mix the melted butter in with the crushed biscuits.

3. Pack the butter/biscuit mixture into a 25cm tart tin (I don't recommend a glass one like I used, tricky business trying to portion up!). Press the mixture down to form an even layer and then refrigerate for 1 hour.

4. Spread the dulce de leche over the chilled biscuit base.

5. Slice up your bananas thinly and layer over the dulce de leche.

6. Whip the double cream and top the bananas with this and sprinkle over some shaved dark chocolate (although perhaps try to keep more on the pie than the table!)

Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get any pictures of it sliced up and ready to eat as, well, it was gobbled up before I had the chance! Enjoy :)