Banoffee Pie

Name: Banoffee Pie
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1⅓ cups (6⅔ ounces; 189 grams), all-purpose flour; 5 tablespoons (2¼ ounces; 64 grams), granulated sugar; ½ teaspoon, table salt; 10 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted; 1 (14 ounces; 397 grams) can, sweetened condensed milk; ½ cup packed (3½ ounces; 99 grams), dark brown sugar; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter; ¼ teaspoon, baking soda; ¼ teaspoon, table salt; 3-4 ripe but firm, bananas; 1½ cups, heavy cream, chilled; 1½ teaspoons, granulated sugar; 1 teaspoon, instant espresso powder; ½ teaspoon, vanilla extract; Shaved, bittersweet chocolate

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2023

Desserts or Baked Goods

This British treat layers fresh bananas and a butterscotch-y filling into a crisp cookie-like crust and caps things off with billows of coffee-scented whipped cream.

SERVES8

TIME1½ hours plus 7½ hours cooling and chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our take on this beloved British dessert, we traded in the traditional rolled pastry and slow-boiled sweetened condensed milk filling for easier, faster alternatives. Stirring melted butter into flour, sugar, and salt yielded a malleabl...

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