No Bake Banoffee Pie with Pecans

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Banoffee Pie / The Little Loaf

It feels like a lot of the food I’ve made over the last few weeks is something of a metaphor for the life we’re currently living. I hadn’t planned to post the recipe for this no bake banoffee pie – surely anyone can throw together the basic combination of biscuits, bananas, toffee and cream – but your enthusiastic response to this photo on Instagram got me thinking about what we all appreciate on a day-to-day basis. Not fancy tiered cakes and complicated techniques but the joy of simplicity – the recipe equivalent of slow days snuggling on the sofa rather than a glamorous evening out. Banoffee Pie

This is another recipe I’d mark as baby-sling-approved in its simplicity, plus it’s made in stages if you need to break off for feeding, winding or simply staring at your little love bundle. I appreciate that not everyone reading this has fallen into the delicious black hole of newborn baby, so feel free to insert your equivalent distraction here – we all lead busy lives and I hope a simple recipe will appeal whether you’re fielding work emails into the night, ferrying children on the school run or feeding hungry teenagers.

Banoffee Pie

Banoffee pie needs no introduction and this recipe doesn’t break the mould, rather – in my humble opinion – slightly improves on it. There’s a smidgen less toffee than some versions, providing a slim yet satisfyingly sweet foil for the bananas and cream, a healthy dose of cinnamon in the whipped cream and pecans, because I never knowingly omit a nut for crunch. I didn’t fuss around with chocolate curls on this occasion, but if you’re of a chocolaty persuasion you could add some, or even go the whole hog by adding 75g melted dark chocolate to the toffee and using a chocolate biscuit base.

Banoffee Pie / The Little Loaf

Tomorrow we’re heading to hospital before Nino’s operation on Wednesday, so things will be a little quiet around here for the next few weeks. Which gives you plenty of time to make this pie and take some time to enjoy the everyday. Life is sweet.

Banoffee Pie / The Little Loaf

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No Bake Banoffee Pie with Pecans
 
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If you're in the market for a simple, delicious dessert, this no-bake banoffee pie is for you. Rich toffee, sliced bananas and cinnamon whipped cream top a buttery biscuit base made richer and creamier with the crunch of pecans.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 8
Ingredients
For the crust
  • 100g unsalted butter
  • 200g wholemeal spelt digestives (recipe in my cookbook) or normal digestives
  • 75g pecan halves
For the filling
  • 70g unsalted butter
  • 60g light brown muscovado sugar
  • 250g dulce de leche (recipe in my cookbook) or use a good quality jar
  • pinch sea salt
  • 3 large ripe bananas
  • juice of half a lemon
  • 300ml double cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • 75g pecan halves
Instructions
  1. In a small saucepan, melt the butter and allow to cool completely. Blitz the biscuits to fine crumbs in a food processor then pulse in the pecans - you want to keep a little texture from the nut. Stir in the cooled melted butter then press into the base and sides of a 23cm round, loose bottomed tart tin. Refrigerate while you make the toffee.
  2. In the same small saucepan (no need to wash up) melt together the butter and sugar until smooth and combined. Stir in the dulce de leche, bring to the boil then remove from the heat and allow to cool at room temperature for 10 minutes. Pour over your biscuit base and refrigerate for one hour.
  3. To finish, slice the bananas into coins on a slight angle and toss with the lemon juice. Use to cover the caramel layer. Lightly whip the cream, fold in the vanilla and cinnamon then spoon or pipe over the banana slices. Top with the pecan slices and serve.
  4. Will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for a couple of days.

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3 RESPONSES TO No Bake Banoffee Pie with Pecans

  1. Your banoffee pie looks absolutely delicious Kate and I absolutely agree that the simple recipes shouldn’t be ignored as these are the ones we return to time and time again. Banoffee pie is certainly a favourite of mine and I definitely want to try your version of it. I have loved reading your blog these past few months as I have a ten month old boy so can utterly relate to your first-time mum experiences, although I didn’t quite get on with the sling so my baking slid into hiatus for those first few months. Good luck with Nino’s operation – he will do brilliantly I am sure and we look forward to hearing from you on the other side.

  2. Emma @ Poires au Chocolat -

    Best of luck for Wednesday, I’ll be thinking of you & little Nino – I hope it all goes as smoothly as possible xxx

    (& this looks delicious – wish I could have a slice in the library right now!)

  3. Jodie -

    I love this recipe. I tend to bake when i bringing it to someone (coz i eat too much if its in the house) any everyone comments on this banoffee. The peacons the delicious in it…
    Thank you for sharing

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