Anyone who has had banoffee pie will know it is certainly a gorgeous mixture of many unhealthy things and one healthy. The base is usually made from biscuit crumbs that have been crushed by a rolling pin and the filling is usually chilled caramel. This is then topped with a layer of sliced bananas, which in itself it then topped with a thick cream, and if that wasn’t unhealthy enough, most restaurants will finish it off with some sort of chocolate topping.
It is thought that the pudding was created by Ian Dowding and Nigel Mackenzie in 1972. Mackenzie owned a restaurant in East Sussex, England called The Hungry Monk and Dowding was the chef.
During a visit to the United States, Dowding became familiar with a dessert called “Blum’s Coffee Toffee Pie” (BCTP) and it was this that apparently gave him the initial idea for what became baoffee pie. BCTP however was very difficult to perfect – it consisted of a toffee filling topped with a thick coffee cream, but it either came out too hard or didn’t set properly.
When back from the states, Dowding and Mackenzie worked with the idea and used bananas and toffee. They originally created the word “banoffi” which has slowly turned into “banoffee” and has even found it’s way into the English language, used to describe anything with a banana and toffee flavour.
So with their new recipe they added it to The Hungry Monk’s menu. It was instantly popular – so popular in fact that people started to make table bookings only if the new dessert was on the menu. It in fact became so popular that they dared not remove it from the menu at all!
During the next couple of years or so other local restaurants began to sell their version of the pudding. Dowding said that he had also heard people saying that it was beginning to get sold in the US and Australia. It looked like the dessert had really taken off, and during the late 1970s it was a great selling dessert in India, fuelled by the young European backpackers of the day.
In 1994 some supermarkets began to sell banoffee pie, calling it an “American pie”. Wanting to prove it’s origins, Mackenzie offered a 10,000 prize to anyone who could produce a pre-1972 menu with the pudding listed. To my knowledge nobody has come forward.
So since it’s humble beginnings in 1972 banoffee pie has spread to the four corners of the globe and is sold throughout thousands of restaurants, and remains a world favourite.
For a mouth-watering banoffee pie recipe click the link!
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