Banoffee Pie is a rich and decadent no-bake dessert made with a buttery shortbread crust, bananas, and a homemade toffee sauce filling, topped with whipped cream. It is a delicious and indulgent dessert that combines sweet, creamy, and subtle banana for a perfect balance of tastes and textures! If this is your kind of dessert, you will also love Banana Cream Pie!
What is Banoffee Pie?
A Banoffee pie is a combination of a banana and toffee pie or a banana toffee pie. It is believed to have been created by a British pub owner in the 1970s. The head chef put together a dessert with caramel, boiled sweetened condensed milk, and bananas, all in a flaky pie crust. Now, there are many variations to the popular dessert, including this recipe. I used a shortbread crust, a toffee filling, bananas, and whipped cream. It’s one of the easiest, yet most delightful desserts you can make!
Ingredients & Substitutions
Crust: When making the shortbread crust, be sure all of the crumbs are coated in butter. This is the ‘glue’ that holds the cookie crumbs together. Have a few extra crumbs on hand to sprinkle over the top, too! You could also make this pie with a graham cracker crust.
Toffee Sauce: The toffee filling is easy to mix together, made with a can of sweetened condensed milk, unsalted butter, and brown sugar. We also tested the recipe with a can of dulce de leche. It tasted okay, but it did not set up as well as we would have liked. However, the pie was still delicious!
Bananas: Slice three bananas into rounds for the pie.
Whipped Cream: I prefer homemade whipped cream for this recipe. However, you could certainly use store-bought like cool whip.
Can I Make Banoffee Pie Without a Springform Pan?
Yes! If you don’t have a springform pan, you could certainly use an 8 or 9-inch square baking dish. Or, for a fun presentation, set up the pie into small ramekins or dessert cups for individual banoffee pies. Any way you serve it, your guests will love it!
How to Store Banoffee Pie
Store Banoffee pie in the refrigerator, covered. It will last up to 3-4 days. I do not recommend freezing this pie.
Creamy No Bake Desserts
Banoffee Pie
Ingredients
- 3 medium bananas, sliced into rounds, divided
Shortbread Crust
- 2 cups shortbread crumbs
- 6 tablespoons salted butter, melted
Toffee Filling
- ¼ cup (½ stick / 57 g) unsalted butter
- ¼ cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
Whipped Cream
- 1 cup (238 g) heavy whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
Instructions
- Spray an 8-inch springform pan with parchment paper and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
Shortbread Crust
- In a bowl, combine shortbread crumbs and melted butter with a fork. Press the crust into the bottom of and halfway up the sides of the prepared springform pan. Set aside as you make the filling.
Toffee Filling
- In a medium saucepan over low heat, melt the butter and brown sugar, stirring until the sugar has dissolved.
- Add the sweetened condensed milk. Increase the temperature to medium-low, bringing the mixture to a low simmer. Stir continuously for 16-18 minutes, or until the mixture thickens and turns a golden caramel color.
- Remove from heat and set aside as you make the whipped cream.
Whipped Cream
- In a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, whip cream until stiff peaks are just about to form (about 1 ½ minutes). Beat in confectioners' sugar until stiff peaks form.
Assembly
- Layer half of the banana rounds over the crust.
- Pour the toffee sauce over the bananas. Add the remaining bananas.
- Top with whipped cream.
- Transfer the pie to the refrigerator to chill for 1 hour, up to overnight.
- Serve chilled, sprinkled with extra shortbread crumbs.
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What the Test Kitchen had to say about this recipe:
Autumn
Testing this recipe was so fun because I love all of the flavor combinations. The final result was the perfect blend of bananas, sweet toffee, whipped topping, and a buttery shortbread crust. You really can't go wrong with this one!
Elizabeth
We finally nailed this recipe by making our own toffee filling to fill the crust. The flavor profiles of the bananas, shortbread crust, and toffee filling all stood out and held their own! And, of course, everything is better with whipped cream!
Bella
This has a wide range of flavors and textures, and I can taste them all in every bite. They all gave each other compliments. There are different elements including sweetness, creaminess, chewiness, crunchiness, softness, and lightness in just one recipe! It had such a great taste from everything coming together.
The first version was a little too chewy for me but still had great flavor. BUT, the second version was creamy, and all the flavors complemented each other! I loved this dessert!!
Selena
The balance of the bananas, whipped cream and toffee filling are just divine. Typically this has a graham cracker crust, but the shortbread crust instead just levels this up and makes it extra special!
My recipe for Banoffee pie is very old and calls for Black Treacle. have to order it from Ireland, so I will try yours.
why do they call it a banoffee pie instead of a carmel pie when I first saw the title l thought it was a pie that had coffee in it and l don’t drink coffee nor do l buy it
Banana + Toffee = Banoffe
Recipe for Banoffe Pie sounds amazing & the photo is beautiful. Thanks for sharing Amanda ! I’m always looking for something new & love cultural recipes ♡
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Amazing
Can you use a different fruit. I don’t like bananas
Banoffee pie is hardly traditional English baking! It was invented in the 1970s.
Banoffee pie was developed in 1971 for a restaurant in the U.K. It’s not really considered here to be a traditional dessert as it’s relatively “new” but is still really yummy and everyone knows what it is! So easy to make if you use the boiled condensed milk tin method as Donna stated in a previous comment. We can buy the milk already made into toffee in the tin here. Really easy!
I think if your going to make a British dish you should keep it British which this isn’t and is in no way shape or form comparable to an apple pie! This also looks nothing like an English banoffee pie! It’s like the rude Americans bull doze over something else….
As a Brit, Banoffee Pie is a favourite in our family. I make the base with chocolate digestives and use dark brown sugar in my caramel. It’s Finished off with flaked chocolate on top of the cream. I make the caramel on a low heat and as soon as it starts to bubble I turn it off.