Banoffi pai

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a Banoffi pie at home? First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. Cooking is better to start with the basics. Biscuit or sugar cookies are suitable for the base. It's better to take a salty straw, so the taste will be more interesting. You can replace the straw with the same amount of cookies.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pre-melt and cool the butter.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the broken cookies into pieces in the blender bowl. Grind into fine crumbs.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the straw into the blender bowl and grind into crumbs. The crumb can be as small as a cookie, or you can make it a little larger.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour both kinds of crumbs into a bowl. Pour in the melted butter and mix until the state of wet crumbs.

6. Step 6:

   

   Pour the crumbs into a baking dish (Ø 16-18 cm). It is better to pre-line the sides of the mold with an acetate film (so that the film fits snugly to the sides, lubricate them with vegetable oil).

7. Step 7:

   

   Distribute the crumbs along the bottom and walls of the mold, forming high sides with a thickness of about 5-6 mm. Put the mold in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours. It is better to form a cake immediately on a platter.

8. Step 8:

   

   Now prepare the caramel. You can take cane sugar, like mine, or plain white.

9. Step 9:

   

   Pour sugar into a saucepan, pour water. Put a saucepan on medium heat and cook until the sugar melts. Do not stir the sugar mixture with anything, otherwise the sugar will crystallize! Just shake the saucepan. When the sugar melts, increase the heat to maximum and wait for the mixture to turn amber and thicken.

10. Step 10:

    

    Remove the saucepan from the heat, add butter and warm cream and mix vigorously until smooth. The caramel should be thick enough. If desired, you can add a pinch of salt to the caramel during cooking.You will get salted caramel. What should I do if, after adding butter and cream, the caramel has become very thin? You can put it on a slow fire and bring it to a boil again with constant stirring. Cook, stirring, until thickened.

12. Step 11:

    

    Pour the caramel sauce on the cake. Before that, you can cool it slightly.

13. Step 12:

    

    You will need 2-3 bananas for the filling. Take ripe bananas, but not overripe, with a bright yellow skin without black dots.

14. Step 13:

    

    Peel the bananas and cut them into not very thick circles.

15. Step 14:

    

    Put the banana slices on the caramel in 2-3 layers.

16. Step 15:

    

    Now prepare the cream. For the cream, ordinary cottage cheese without additives (Almette, mascarpone, Hohland, etc.) is suitable. If desired, you can add a little powdered sugar to the cream.

17. Step 16:

    

    Beat cold cream with a mixer until dense peaks.

18. Step 17:

    

    Add the curd cream cheese and whisk again until smooth. It is not necessary to beat for a long time, otherwise the cheese and cream will be stratified.

19. Step 18:

    

    Transfer the cream into a pastry bag with a nozzle "closed star".

20. Step 19:

    

    Put large cream roses on the banana layer. Put the banoffi pie in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

21. Step 20:

    

    Before serving, remove the cooking ring, decorate the cake with banana slices and mint. Bon appetit!