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+++ categories = ["food"] tags = ["pie", "banana", "caramel"] date = 2025-03-01T06:27:00-06:00 description = "Turning leftover pie crust and caramel into an improvised banoffee pie with bananas and cream." draft = false slug = "banoffee-pie" title = "🍌 Banoffee Pie" author = "nicholas" +++
We made a pumpkin caramel pie to bring for a family dinner (not pictured, strangely). Enough pie crust remained to line a shallow pizza pan, which I baked into a crust before I knew what it would become. We also had a bit of caramel leftover. After a little time considering what ingredients we had, Bailey figured we could make a decent banoffee pie. It is a beautiful accident that she had been wanting to make this after seeing it on The Great British Bake Off, and luckier still that we had bananas on hand.
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Recipe
This is a lazy recipe because the food was assembled ad-hoc using leftovers of unknown measurements as is the case for many kinds of pies. I use the examples of the quiche and pie to make my point: they serve as the uniting force that brings together really any ingredient in any amount that you happen to have lying around. Details unimportant.
- Bake pie crust ~12"
- Pour shallow layer of wet caramel
- Toast about 35 pecans
- Cover caramel layer with one layer of toasted pecans
- Slice a banana into 1/4" slices
- Cover the pecans in layer of whipped cream
- Place the banana slices over the whipped cream