Banoffee Pie

Name: Banoffee Pie
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 200 g (7 oz) salted butter caramel or dulce de leche; 100 g (3½ oz) lightly salted butter, melted; 2 tablespoons mascarpone cheese; Grated dark chocolate, to decorate; 300 g (10½ oz) digestive biscuits (sweet wholemeal biscuits); 300 ml (10½ fl oz) thin (pouring/whipping) cream, well chilled; 50 g (1¾ oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar (optional); 3 bananas, fairly ripe

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
20 min

Appears in

100 Desserts to Die For

By Trish Deseine

Published 2016

About

There’s no need to go to the trouble of making your own caramel for this recipe, as your local supermarket is no doubt loaded with jars of salted butter caramel or dulce de leche. You can’t cut corners with the digestive biscuits, however.

Ingredients

300 g (10½ oz) digestive biscuits (sweet wholemeal biscuits)
100 g (3½

Dessert
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

CRUSH THE BISCUITS INTO CRUMBS. Combine them with the melted butter and spread the mixture over the base of a round 20–22 cm (8–8½ inch) tart tin. Press down well, then place the base in the fridge