Banoffee

Banoffee is one of my favourite desserts. The other day, my best friend's sister made one and I must say it was the best banoffee I have ever tasted. So, I asked her for the recipee and it is very easy -it doesn't the oven, except for its cookie base, that you need to bake. I will definitely prepare it one of the days to come and I decided to share the recipee with you as well.

Ingredients:

• 2 cans of sweetened milk (the one that already contains sugar -do not take a normal one and just imagine you can add sugar, because you will need it as it is, I will explain why)

• A box of digestive cookies

• 3-4 bananas

• whipped cream (or two packets of sour cream, so that you can make your own whipped cream)

• 2 spoonfuls of butter

How to make it:

The first thing you will need to do is make the caramel. It is the process that will take the most time, so you should start with it. You take a pot and fill it with water. Put it to boil in a high temperature, but first put the cans of sweetened milk inside of it. Do not open them or do anything, just put them as they are. You should leave them there for 4-5 hours, so it is the very first step for your dessert. Leave them for 4 hours without doing anything else regarding the banoffee and, once the time has passed, go back to continue with the recipee. By the time you finish with the rest of the steps, the caramel will be ready.

Afterwards, you have to smash the digestive cookies in a blender, so that they become crumbles. Then, you melt the butter in the microwave. If you don't have a microwave, you can follow the same process that you do with chocolate: you take a large pot and fill half of it with water. You heat the water and you put a smaller pot inside the large one. Make sure that the bottom of the small pot does not touch the water. You add the butter and it will soon be melted. Be careful not to burn it, it should just get hot enough to become a liquid! Once it is ready, mix it with the crumbled digestive cookies and mix it up with your hands, so that it becomes like a yeast. Then, spread the cookie base to a round baking pan. Make sure it has the same width in all parts of the pan, so that it is cooked in an even way -and, most importantly, at the same time.

Pre-heat the oven in 250oC for around 5-10 minutes and then put the pan into it and lower the temperature to 180oC and leave it for five minutes. Then, take it out of the oven and let it reach the room temperature.

Remember our caramel? By now it's gonna be ready. Take the cans off the pot and let them out in the room for 5-10 minutes, so that you can open them. The sweetened milk will have become caramel just like that! You don't have to do anything else. Put the caramel on the baking pan, covering the cookie base.

Now, it's time for the bananas. Just slice them to pieces and put them above the caramel. The dessert tastes much better if the bananas haven't gotten too soft. If soft, they will melt when put on the hot caramel.

Finally, you should put the whipped cream on top. You can just buy a ready made whipped cream, but, personally, I prefer to make my own. You just have to whip the sour cream in a blender, until it becomes much solid. Many people use sugar for that, but it works just as well if you whip the sour cream on its own. This is actually just a matter of personal taste and how sweet one likes their desserts. If you worry about the calories, one good solution would be the use of stevia instead of sugar. The quantity should be about one spoonful of sugar for each packet of sour cream, so, in our case, two spoonfuls of sugar. Once the whipped cream is ready, you put it on the dessert and then put the banoffee in the refridgerator for 3-4 hours. If you can leave it a whole night, that's even better.

Enjoy it!