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Banoffee Pie Challenge

My friend and her husband invited a group of us over for a very impromptu lunch today. She called last night and her husband shouted a challenge out for me to make a banoffee pie. I am always up for a challenge and actually this was simpler than I thought it would be. I quickly went on line to see what was in a banoffee pie and found it was just a few simple ingredients that I had in the pantry or that I could make from what I had in the pantry.  Last night I made the caramel, I was low on it because,  Expat Son enjoys spreading caramel on his toast in the morning for breakfast. Step by step instructions for making the caramel/dulce de leche here.

Sorry no photo of the pie as I did not think about it until I decided to write the post a few minutes ago.  The raves from all our friends are enough for me make this dessert for up coming gatherings.The pie plate was licked clean quite quickly!

Banoffee Pie

1 pie shell graham cracker or pastry  I used a pre-made graham cracker shell today.

11/2 - 2 cans caramel/dulce de leche  made from sweetened condensed milk see the link above

4 medium size bananas, sliced

500 ml whipping cream, chilled

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 - 1/3 cup sugar 

chocolate sprinkles, garnish

 

Pre-bake the pie shell and cool.

Whip the chilled cream, vanilla, and sugar until stiff.

Spread a layer of caramel on the bottom of the crust.

Layer sliced bananas on the caramel.

Spread more caramel over the bananas.

Cover with sweetened whipped cream.

Garnish with chocolate sprinkles or nuts.

Spinach Quiche

Here is the recipe that we used for the Quiche that we sold at the Food and Fun Fair table with the Zucchini Muffins.

We made Spinach Quiche and Bacon & Onion Quiche. I always make a meat version for those people that don't enjoy vegetables.( Husband) Although he is getting better at eating different and more vegetables than he ever did when we got married 21 years ago.  I do try to please.

I digress...

I had so many requests for the recipe that I decided to post it. Here is a photo unfortunatley I forgot about taking the photo until the next morning. So more than half of the quiche is gone. Also this is a ham quiche as I didn't have spinach and the boys were having it for dinner. 

I mention in the recipe that I use half sour cream and half plain yogurt. Sour cream is quite thick here more the consistency of spreadable cream cheese. Sour cream is also quite expensive so it is nice to cut the cost a little bit with the plain yogurt. The yogurt also gives the quiche a nice sharpness in flavor.