Friday 17 December 2010

5 minute simple easy banoffee pie

Divergence from whoopie pies for once! Thought I'd share my incredibly fast, easy banoffee pie recipe.

I created this one the other night - yoghurt had featured highly on the boy's pudding menu for a few days, and we didn't have much in the way of other puddings (ice cream had run out, not much fruit around....) so I looked in the fridge and got creative. We had a bit of single cream, and half a banana. A rootle in the cupboards revealed honey, and a couple of malted milk biscuits (digestives or something would work equally well). And that's all you need! No boiling up condensed milk, whipping up cream, or leaving biscuit bases to set.

5 Minute Banoffee Pie (2 portions)

Ingredients
4 malted milk biscuits (cheap and easily available in supermarkets)
4 tsp butter
1/2 banana
2 tsp honey
approx 2 tbsp single cream

Equipment
2 bowls (cereal/dessert size)
the end of a rolling pin (or something similar to bash the biscuits)
fork to mash the banana
spoons for the honey and butter
microwave and heatproof bowl to melt the butter

Method
Melt the butter in a heatproof bowl in the microwave.
Put 2 biscuits in each bowl.
Bash the biscuits with the end of the rolling pin (gently so you don't break your bowls!) till they're nice and crummy.
Mix 2 tsps of melted butter into each bowl with the biscuit crumbs.
Dribble 1 tsp of honey into each bowl.
Mash the banana with a fork and divide equally between the two bowls.
Pour 1 tbsp cream on top of each.

Yum :)

(and I know this was branching off from whoopies, but I couldn't resist a mention.... if you enjoyed this recipe, you might enjoy some of my whoopie ones...Baking Whoopies)