This bannoffee slice recipe is pure Bannoffee heaven! A layer of buttery puff pastry is smothered in salted caramel sauce, sliced bananas and a creamy, delicate banana custard. Then to prime all of it off is whipped cream, additional salted caramel sauce and chocolate dipped pastry. This dessert slice relies on the krempita vanilla slice and is so moreishly scrumptious that it ought to include a warning label! This typically is a pushy recipe Pricey Reader (and there is a Thermomix recipe too).
Bannoffee (a portmanteau or banana and toffee) is a heavenly combination of sliced banana, caramel or dulce de leche, cream and chocolate. It is sometimes made proper right correct proper right into a pie and the invention is credited to Nigel Mackenzie the proprietor and Ian Dowding the chef of the sooner Hungry Monk Restaurant in Jevington, East Sussex, England. I first tried bannoffee after I was contained inside the UK and I swooned over that mixture. I am not even an infinite banana eater – I’d almost positively eat one banana each 2 months nonetheless everytime you make it into bannoffee I’m unable to cease consuming them!
Just some years beforehand I had a banana mousse cheesecake at a lodge that I nonetheless envisage to currently. And it is solely now a variety of years later that I found how they obtained the exact banana flavour contained inside the cheesecake. I am speaking updated banana flavour, not banana lollies or sweet flavour. It was utilizing a banana puree that cooks use. So I purchased a bottle of it after which I had this unbelievable tasting banana custard that tasted of newest bananas! And that is after I made up my concepts that I needed to make a model of the Krempita vanilla slice nonetheless bannoffee flavoured instead and little did I do know that I appreciated it additional of the distinctive vanilla slice!
Selections For Making This Bannoffee Dessert
1 – Should you cannot entry the Monin banana puree, likelihood is you may shield this as a each single day vanilla custard nonetheless I promise it’s worth inside the hunt for this banana puree out. It is so good (not sponsored) that you will want to drizzle it on prime of ice lotions or make smoothies or milkshakes with it. It wasn’t overly expensive, I give it some thought spherical $25 for a 1 litre/2.1 pint bottle of concentrated banana puree which may closing for some time.
2 – The Monin banana puree is good so there is not a such issue as a necessity so as in order so as in order so as to add sugar into the custard. Do you have to happen to do not use the banana puree, it’s best to have so as in order so as to add 1/2 cup/110g/3.8ozs of caster sugar to the custard.
3 – I truly like making custards contained inside the Thermomix due to they’re set and overlook with out having to stir. You find yourself with the silkiest custard too! Plus additionally it is doable to whip cream contained inside the Thermomix.
4 – This bannoffee slice is largest made a day forward to present the custard time to set.
5 – You should purchase salted caramel sauce in another case likelihood is you may make it at dwelling. My easy salted caramel sauce recipe is true right correct proper right here.
Mr NQN appreciated this slice as he’s a banana freak, a lot in order that I frequently title him a monkey. He obtained caught out not too means as soon as extra for being messy and it concerned empty plates of this bannoffee slice. Our cleansing lady Fernanda is nice and we requested her to do a spring cleansing forward of the hotter native native climate. She spent as a rule in Mr NQN’s workplace. He and I’ve completely completely utterly utterly totally different concepts of what clear is. He’s fairly glad to sit down down down in a messy, cramped room and he can work merely advantageous. For me, a clear room is a clear concepts and I am unable to work if parts are messy. We compromised and over the previous few months Mr NQN put loads of his stuff in massive plastic storage bins. There are 4 rows of those with 4 bins stacked on prime of one another. It is ALOT.
After a variety of hours cleansing his room Fernanda emerged, barely shell shocked. She cleared out baggage of issues, empty bins, soiled plates and envelopes and simply junk. With good seriousness on her face she quick me that his nuts have been uncontrolled. He eats nuts like a monkey and he usually leaves the luggage open. A catastrophe so far as pests are involved.
She handed me a bag full of bags of nuts. “Give these to him in a closed self-discipline with a lid,” she talked about. I took the luggage of nuts and decanted them proper right correct proper right into a container after which handed them as shortly as additional to him. “I am afraid that you could possibly be be not have unsupervised nuts,” I mentioned joking nonetheless not going joking within the least.
“What do you stage out?” he requested.
“Your nuts will now be supervised attributable to pest administration parts,” I quick him. He took the data of the supervised nuts appropriately. I truly suppose he was truly fairly relieved and glad at having a mannequin new, clear workplace. Who’s acutely aware of how extended it will closing although!
So inform me Pricey Reader, can you’re employed in a messy room? Do you just like the bannoffee mixture?
Bannoffee Slice
An Precise Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Preparation time: half-hour plus in a single day setting time
Cooking time: half-hour
- 360g/12.7ozs/2 sheets butter puff pastry
- 4 eggs, large
- 100g/3.5ozs caster or superfine sugar, divided in equal halves
- 500ml/16.9flozs entire milk
- 170ml/6flozs Monin banana puree
- 70g/2.5ozs cornflour/advantageous cornstarch
- 1/2 cup/125ml/4flozs water
- 2 tablespoons/20g/ gelatine powder
- 200g/7ozs salted caramel sauce (see recipe proper right correct proper right here)
- 3x bananas
- 2 cups/500ml/0.8pint thickened or pure cream
- 80g/2.8ozs caster or superfine sugar
- 65g/2.3ozs darkish chocolate
Step 1 – It is best to have a 20x20x10cm or 8x8x4inch sq. tin with very excessive sides for this. Preheat oven to 180C/350F fan compelled and line two trays with parchment. Place on sq. of puff pastry on one tray and dock all through with a fork. Bake for quarter-hour.
Step 2 –Then with the opposite sheet of puff pastry place the sq. baking tin on prime and rating to go efficiently with the tin and trim additional pastry off. Cut back the pastry into 9 equal sized squares and shield contained inside the fridge till wanted. Bake for quarter-hour or till golden. Put aside.
Step 3 –Line the baking tin appropriately utilizing parchment that overhangs (to make it easier to spice up out of the tin). Cut back the one sheet of pastry to go efficiently with the baking tin and place contained within the underside of the tin.
Step 4a Commonplace – Separate the eggs guaranteeing that there is not a such issue as a yolk contained inside the whites within the least. Place the egg whites in a clear bowl of a mixer fitted with a whisk attachment and whisk till you get clear peaks. Add half of the sugar in a skinny stream and whisk till you get a thick, shiny meringue and as well as likelihood is you may tip the bowl the flawed methodology up with out it transferring. Put aside.
Step 4b Thermomix- Separate the eggs guaranteeing that there is not a such issue as a yolk contained inside the whites within the least. Place the egg whites in a extraordinarily clear Thermomix bowl with a butterfly whisk attachment and set to 4 minutes, 37C, tempo 3.5. Take away the MC and set to 4 minutes, 37C, tempo 3 and progressively pour contained inside the sugar. Watch to see that it has develop to be shiny and shiny. Scoop out and put aside.
Step 5a Commonplace – Whisk the egg yolks, the banana puree, cornflour and 1/2 cup (125ml/4flozs) of the milk and vanilla collectively in a bowl or jug till easy. Place the remaining milk in a medium saucepan and warmth till nearly boiling. Flip down the warmth on the milk to low and whisk in a single ladle of the newest milk into the yolk combination and add nonetheless however one other ladle of milk and whisk in to mood the yolks. Then slowly add the yolk combination to the milk combination contained inside the saucepan stirring to forestall it catching on the underside. It should thicken up progressively.
Step 5b Thermomix – Place the egg yolks, the sugar, milk, banana puree and cornflour into the Thermomix bowl and set to 9 minutes, 90C, tempo #4.
Step 6 –In an infinite microwave proof soup bowl place the water and sprinkle with the gelatine powder guaranteeing to evenly distribute all of it through the underside of the water. The right should wrinkle and swell.
Step 7 –When the custard is thick and prepared flip off the warmth. Place the gelatine bowl contained inside the microwave for 20 seconds on excessive or till it turns into liquid. Whisk contained inside the gelatine combination to the custard whereas each are hot-they should be the similar temperature, in a single totally different case lumps will sort. Thermomix-add gelatine to the bowl of custard and set to fifteen seconds, tempo #4. Then whereas the entire gadgets continues to be scorching, tip this custard to an infinite bowl and add a dollop of the reserved meringue and fold to mix. Steadily add additional meringue till you get a lightweight, cohesive combination with none streaks within the least.
Step 8 – Unfold half of the caramel onto the underside of the pastry. Cut back up bananas and line up all through the underside. Scoop the custard into the tin on prime of the bananas and straightforward over with an angled spatula till easy. Cool to room temperature, cowl and refrigerate for six hours or in a single day.
Step 8a Commonplace – Place the mixer bowl and whisk attachment contained inside the freezer for five minutes. Add the cream and the sugar to the bowl and whisk till you get thick, whipped cream.
Step 8b Thermomix – Place the TM bowl contained inside the freezer for five minutes. Insert the butterfly whisk and add the cream and sugar. Set to hurry #4 for 1 minute nonetheless take away the MC and wait for when the cream is thick and whipped. Cease it as shortly as chances are chances are you’ll even see that the cream is thick enough.
Step 9 –Spoon the cream on prime of the set custard. Take away the custard and pastry from the tin utilizing the parchment to grip after which discard the parchment. Soften the chocolate in a bowl contained inside the microwave on 70% vitality till easy. Take the pastry squares and dip them into the chocolate after which place on prime of the cake. Cut back into squares utilizing a pointy chef’s knife.
Revealed on 2024-09-02 by Lorraine Elliott.