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Banoffee Pie
Recipe from Ian Dowding and Nigel MacKenzie
Adapted by Margaux Laskey
Y I E L D One 9-inch pie
TIME 30 minutes, plus cooling and chilling
With generous layers of dulce de leche, bananas and whipped cream, this dazzling pie is not for the faint of
heart. The banoffee or banoffi pie, a mash-up of banana and toffee, was created in 1971 by the chef Ian
Dowding and Nigel MacKenzie, the owner of the Hungry Monk, a now-closed restaurant in Sussex, England.
The original recipe called for a traditional pie crust, homemade dulce de leche and coffee-flavored whipped
cream, but we’ve simplified it for the home cook by using a graham cracker crust, store-bought dulce de
leche and plain whipped cream. If you like, you could add a teaspoon of instant coffee granules to the
whipped cream. —Margaux Laskey
INGREDIENTS PREPARAT ION
1 ¼ cups/155 grams graham Step 1
cracker crumbs (about 10 Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Make the crust: In a medium
whole graham crackers) bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, sugar
5 tablespoons/70 grams and salt. Stir until fully incorporated and sandy. (When you
unsalted butter, melted pinch a bit of it between your fingers, it should hold
together.) Transfer to a 9-inch pie plate. Using your fingers or
⅓ cup/65 grams granulated
a flat-bottomed cup, press the mixture into the pie plate and
sugar
up the sides. Make sure it is well packed. Bake until set, 12 to
½ teaspoon kosher salt 15 minutes. Let cool at room temperature for 30 minutes, or
2 ½ cups/600 milliliters store- cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate up to 2 days.
bought dulce de leche (about
20 ounces) Step 2
3 large bananas, peeled and Spoon the dulce de leche into the pie crust and spread into an
sliced about 1/4-inch thick even layer. Pile in banana slices into a relatively even layer
(they should overlap). Transfer the pie to the refrigerator
FOR THE WHIPPED CREAM: while you make the whipped cream.
Step 3
1 ½ cups/360 milliliters cold
heavy cream Make the whipped cream: Using a handheld mixer or stand
mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, whip the heavy cream,
2 tablespoons granulated
sugar, vanilla extract and instant coffee, if using, on medium-
sugar
high speed until firm peaks form, 1 to 2 minutes. Spread the
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract whipped cream on top of the bananas, making sure to spread
the whipped cream to the edge, totally covering the bananas
1 teaspoon instant coffee
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(this will help prevent them from browning). Chill the pie,
granules (optional)
uncovered, for 2 hours and up to overnight.
Chocolate shavings or fresh
coffee grounds, for garnish Step 4
(optional)
To serve, sprinkle the pie with chocolate shavings or fresh
coffee grounds, if desired. Store leftover pie in the
refrigerator, covered, for up to 5 days. The whipped cream
may lose some height, but the pie will be no less delicious.
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Adapted from Ian Dowding and Nigel MacKenzie, Hungry Monk, Sussex, England
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