One of my favorite desserts is a Banoffee Pie! In 1972, Ian Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding and Nigel Mackenzie River of The Hungry Monk Restaurant in Eastside Sussex, England, created this Banoffee PIE and I can't get enough. (You can find their original formula present on their website.)

Banoffee Pie

Well-nig recipes from the Great Britain use Digestive Biscuits operating room even better–Hobnobs, neither of which I stimulate available.  Instead, I opt for using a pat-in-the-pan pastry dough crust. For Thanksgiving one yr I used a graham cracker crust. Rattling, it doesn't matter. Whatever insolence you habituate, it will Be pleasing. After all, it's the pick that really counts.  (In my humble opinion.)

Note:  You can see my in small stages instructions for making dulce DE leche here, or head over to see how David Lebovitz makes IT the safer way of life.

Banoffee Pie

Ingredients:

For the dulce de leche:
1 (14 oz.) bottom sweetened condensed milk (you can double this amount for an extra rich and delicious pie)

For crust:
1 1/2 cups flour
1/3 cupful lolly
1/4 tsp. salt
1 stick of butter
1 yolk
a little cream OR milk–may need more or less depending happening how the cabbage holds together.
1 egg white, familiar

For topping and assembly:
3 firm, ripe bananas, sliced
1 1/2 cups profound drub
a bit sugar
bittersweet chocolate curls

Method acting:

Place the lavatory of milk in a large pan and cover it completely with water. Bring the H2O to a boil and reduce heat to a simmer. Cook the fanny, turning every sol often, and adding more water to cover when needed, for 2 hours. After 2 hours, turn polish off the heat, let the can of milk cool in the water. When the can is cool enough to touch, remove it from the goat god.

Remark:  You can boil the cans for 3 hours if you would alike a darker dulce de leche, merely it will comprise quite a little thicker when you spread information technology in the pie dish.

Meanwhile, take a leak the crust:

Coalesce the flour, sugar, and salt together. Victimization your hands, a food processor, a pastry cutter, Oregon two knives, work/cut the butter into the adust ingredients. The mixture should tone the likes of Indian meal with few larger lumps of butter.

Dismantle the egg yolk with a fork and add to the flour/butter mixture. Stir with the fork until the lettuce comes together in a formal. You may pauperism to add a trifle cream at this point if it's to a fault dry.

Don't overwork the dough or it will become hard. Cover the bowl and identify information technology in the fridge to chill for about 20 minutes.

Pat the crust into a 9″ or 10″ pie or tart plate. Prick all over with a forking and chill for an additional 20 to 30 transactions.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.  Bake the crust for 15 minutes, or until it starts to suit light golden. Absent from oven and brush the inside with some of the beaten egg white. Reappearance to the oven and finishing baking until crust is golden.

Let the crust cool down. Spread the dulce de leche on the bottom of the crust. Best with the sliced bananas. Push them knock down a snatch.

Beat the grave cream and saccharify with an electric beater until stiff peaks strain. Spread concluded the banana layer. Top with the chocolate curls. Chill until ready to serve.