Comments on: Banoffee Pie

By: Meera

Meera — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:21:47 +0000

Thanks a ton Shilpa! I made the Banoffee pie for a family get-together yesterday and it was the most talked about item in the menu. Thank you so much for the inspiration adn all the lovely recipes. Waiting for more suc wonderful recipes in future!
Your ardent fan!
Meera

By: Arundati

Arundati — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:23:23 +0000

great recipe!! and an amazingly easy alternate method ….thanx a million

By: Bsh

Bsh — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:16:18 +0000

Hi! am a regular reader of ur blog..its great!nice recipe there! just wanted to know if we cud pressure cook the condensed milk..rather than cooking it for 2 hrs..

Shilpa: No idea Bsh. Be very very careful if you attempt any such thing, the can may burst open in the cooker.

By: CRodgers

CRodgers — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:10:26 +0000

I made this pie for my husband and he flipped for it. I used ginger snaps for the crust and I think it went wonderfully with the caramel and bananas. I can’t wait to make it for my grandkids.

By: Anu Kamath

Anu Kamath — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:23:27 +0000

Hi Shilpa,
Hope you are enjoying every moment with your aayi right now and I am sure you are going to bombard us with hundreds of her recipes when you get back ha ha.
Anyways long time back I had asked you about the banoffee pie but I could not make it for valentines day as the hostess had made several desserts already (none as good as this one if I may add;-))
Anyways I finally got a chance to make it for Holi and it was gone like that!!!!. Boy, was I happy. Just thought I will let you know that while I was looking for condensed milk I came across dulce de leche by Nestle in the Spanish foods aisle of our regular grocery store. (I had read one of your reader’s comments).
I was little worried when I opened it but lo and behold it saved me 4 hours!!!. It is toffee ready made!!
BTW you also get Marie biscuit (called Maria or from Goya) in that aisle.
So thanks again Shilpa and thanks Chetna for making my day. And thankfully I had no problems with my whipped cream being runny.
Anu

By: rekha

rekha — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:32:24 +0000

Am going to make this on friday for a party. It looks great.

By: geeta

geeta — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:52:58 +0000

Hi shilpa,

do you have to use a pie pan or can you use a regular cake pan.

thanks,
geeta

Shilpa: You can use anything. Since it does not need any baking, you can even use a normal flat bottomed vessel (but springform pans help in taking out the pie very eaily).

By: vinaya

vinaya — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:16:12 +0000

I made this sweet for a party in my house and it was a hit. Even elderly people had second serving of this sweet. Thanks and i got this at the right time just before party in my house.

By: Manasi

Manasi — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:47:45 +0000

Oh!!! Thanx Shilpa!!!

By: Rohit

Rohit — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:17:45 +0000

wow! i didn’t know you could just cook the can of condensed milk and get this… but this is a little too time consuming if i might say so… i have an alternative to those who want to quickly make this (probably half an hour)…
I’m just giving alternatives to the existing recipe posted here:
1. The crust – once u make the crust… put it in the freezer for about 15-20 minutes while u do the remaining steps (chopping the bananas, making the toffee etc…)
2. Making the toffee – in a pan, melt about 75-100 gms of butter. Add about 100-150 grams of demerera sugar (brown sugar – if you’re outside india, u might be able to buy muscovado sugar – dark variety) after the sugar caramelizes, add the can of condensed milk to it, and let it boil, until it gets a slightly thick consistency (this is where it gets tricky, coz if it gets too thick then it will form lumps and get tough to spread it out over the bananas).
3. once u have the toffee ready – take out the pie crust base, and put atleast two layers of bananas and the toffee (alternating).
once its done, put it in the refridgerator for an hour or so and the whole concoction should set.
Add the whipped cream just prior to serving so that it doesn’t run all over the place
the grated chocolate topping is optional as it might just make it a little too sweet.
Tip: the more bananas u use, the sweetness of the toffee gets offset (which means people who can’t eat things that are too sweet, will like it too. also, using muscovado sugar, adds a different flavor to it reducing the sweetness.
Note: the toffee here, actually turns nice and brown because of the caremelized brown sugar.. so it might look a little different from the picture above… but tastes awesome nonetheless.
Used to be my signature dish… but looking at the popularity now, i think i just have to come up with something else

Shilpa: Thanks Rohit. I will try your way next time.