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Easy Banoffee Pie

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I think the Hubs purposely doesn’t eat the bananas I bring home from the market.

Let me tell you the story.

Once upon a time, an amazing baking princess decided that her prince needed more potassium in his diet. She felt it was part of her royal duties to make sure he ate a somewhat nutritious breakfast, so she brought home a bunch of delectable  bananas. For days, they sat on the royal counter, turning brown by every minute that passed by. At the last moment, to save the bananas from impending doom, the princess decided to use them to make his favorite dessert –Banana Pudding –but alas, she did not have what she needed to make it and the carriage was out at Best Buy.

Instead, she made him a traditional English dessert, well, sorta….

Easy Banoffee Pie

The original Banoffee Pie has a crust made of crumbled biscuits and butter. I decided to use a graham cracker crust because you know, I didn’t have any crumbled biscuits lying around the castle.

Easy Banoffee Pie

The key to the whipped topping is to make your own. If you try to use a canned whip cream, then it will deflate and make a mess. It is super duper easy, cheaper than store-bought, and tastes sooo light and fluffy that you might never go back to the can again.

Easy Banoffee Pie

Once the pie was presented to the prince, all order was restored in the kingdom, and all the townspeople rejoiced. The End.

Easy Banoffee Pie

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Easy Banoffee Pie

Yield: 1 9-in. pie

Recipe by Carrie

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
  • 9 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 2 14-oz. cans sweetened condensed milk
  • 4 medium bananas, sliced
  • 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 1/4 cup confectioner sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • cinnamon, for dusting
  • chocolate sprinkles

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350°F {177°C}.
  2. In a small bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs and softened butter.
  3. Press firmly into a 9 in. pie plate and bake for 8-10 minutes.
  4. Let your crust cool on a wire rack while you prepare the toffee pudding.
  5. In a medium, non-stick saucepan, pour the contents of both cans of sweetened condensed milk.
  6. Heat on low, stirring frequently, for about 30-45 minutes.
  7. Once it starts to thicken, take it off the heat and pour it over your graham cracker crust.
  8. Top with sliced bananas.
  9. Whip your heavy cream, confectioner sugar, and vanilla until light and fluffy; about 3-5 minutes.
  10. Top your bananas and toffee pudding with your whip cream.
  11. Dust your pie with cinnamon and chocolate sprinkles.
  12. Refrigerate for 1-2 hours before serving.
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Bananas Foster Muffins

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So here is how last Saturday went.

Me: Honey, what do you want for breakfast? I was thinking muffins.

Hubster: Sounds good to me.

Me: What kind do you want? I have apples, bananas, raspberries…{voice trailing off to tackle mound of laundry}

Hubster: I don’t care. Whatever works for you?

Me: Banana muffins then. Banana muffins with rum. Banana muffins with rum and brown sugar. Banana muffins with rum and brown sugar and homemade caramel sauce.

And that’s how it’s done.

Banana Fosters Muffins

It is crazy how easy these muffins came together. I mean, I mashed the ripe bananas I had using my stand mixer and then piled the rest of the ingredients in, starting with the wet and ending with the dry. I put them in the oven for 15 minutes or so and while that was baking, I made the caramel sauce. The caramel sauce came together in 10 minutes and I cannot tell you how amazing it is. {That post is coming later this week, but I know for a fact that SprinkleBakes has a great recipe for Caramel Sauce too.} So within the hour, I had warm, ooey-gooey, pop-in-your-mouth Banana Fosters Muffins. Just because.

Banana Fosters Muffins

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Banana Fosters Muffins

Serving Size: Makes 3 dozen mini-muffins

Recipe by Carrie

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2-3 ripe bananas
  • 2 tablespoons rum {optional}
  • 1 egg
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • caramel sauce {homemade or store bought}
  • brown sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line mini-muffin pan.
  2. In your stand mixing bowl, mash ripe bananas on low speed.
  3. Add vegetable oil, egg, and rum and mix well.
  4. In separate bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt.
  5. Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients a little at a time until well incorporated.
  6. Fill muffin well 2/3 full and top with brown sugar.
  7. Bake for 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
  8. Drizzle with caramel sauce.
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Banana Fosters Muffins

You can line your mini-muffin pan with muffin liners, like I did, or spray wells with flour spray to avoid wrappers altogether.

Banana Fosters Muffins

Sprinkle tops of muffins with brown sugar before they go in the oven to give them a sweet, crispy layer on top.

Banana Fosters Muffins

And so the perfect Saturday morning treat was born!