Showing posts with label Dessert Recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dessert Recipe. Show all posts

Sunday, May 1, 2011

A Delicious Banoffee Pie Recipe

Banoffee Pie is a truly fantastic dessert. Rumour has it that it was created in 1972 by a chef and restaurant owner, and that it was so popular that they simply couldn’t remove the dessert from the menu. Since then you can buy it in any country around the world. It’s one of my favourite desserts and below I’ve given a really easy recipe so you can make this in your own home! (Serves 10)

Ingredients

3 large bananas, 300g biscuits (digestive biscuits are fine), 60g butter, 350ml double cream, 1 tbsp icing sugar, 100g dark chocolate (to decorate), 400g tin of caramel.

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180C (gas mark 4). Add the butter to a pan and melt. Whilst the butter melts crush the biscuits – a blender is ideal but a plastic bag and rolling pin is more than adequate!

2. In a bowl mix the biscuits and the melted butter. Then transfer the mixture into a 20-25cm flat round tin and press into an even layer.

3. Place the base into the preheated oven and leave for around 10 minutes, allowing the base to lightly toast. Make sure it doesn’t burn by checking it regularly. Once toasted, take out of the oven and leave to cool. Once cooled, carefully remove the base from the tin and place on a plate.

4. Once the base is cool, pour on the caramel evenly and place in the refrigerator for approximately 1 hour.

5. After it’s been thoroughly chilled, slice the bananas and arrange them over the layer of caramel (which is now toffee)

6. Put the chocolate in the microwave to melt, and while it’s melting whip the cream with the icing sugar until thick and spread over the bananas.

7. Finally, carefully pour the decorating chocolate over the dessert and serve.

For more great banoffee recipes, including a delicious banoffee pie recipe, click the link!

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The History of Banoffee Pie

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!

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Preparing A Tasty Dessert Pizza

Cakes, pizzas, pastries, chocolates…all these desserts have been done to death. If you want to indulge your sweet tooth in a slightly different manner, then dessert pizza is the way to go. Dessert pizza serves as the perfect break from the regular desserts. While you may go and have one in a nearby restaurant, it’s much better to make one at home. And do not worry, making a tasty dessert pizza isn’t as difficult as it may seem to be. Just try the below mentioned tricks and you are bound to make the yummiest dessert pizza.

Use yogurt. It is the best way to add an interesting twist to your recipe of dessert pizza. The texture of yogurt gels with the recipe. Simply mix some cut fruits in yogurt, and use the mixture for topping. It not just adds taste to pizza, but also makes it more nutritious. Yogurt is also known to treat yeast infection to a great extent. But, if you’re struggling from severe yeast infection, you can always use effective products like Yeastrol Yeast Infection Treatment.

Another way to make your dessert pizza particularly delicious is to combine different dough mixes. Put together, brownie mix, cake mix, and cookie mix and knead them together to make the dough. This will impart a distinctly distinct flavor to the pizza base and also improve its texture. To play it safe though, you may try using chocolate chip mix. However, if you are feeling a bit guilty about all the feasting and would like to cut down on your calorie intake, you can use Caralluma Burn Appetite Suppressant before digging in.

Use fruit toppings. Usage of fruit greatly determines the taste of this recipe. Quite surprisingly it is the canned fruits and not the real fruits that work finest for this recipe. The crunchy texture of canned fruits enhances the taste of recipe. Use canned fruits only after drying them properly with the help of paper towels. Use different colored fruits to make it more visually appealing. This in addition also aids improve the taste of dessert pizza.

Thus, a dessert pizza could be a flavorful sweet dish to indulge in. With the help of the above tips, the pizza could be rendered even more yummy. However, if you’d like to cut down on your calories, you can try using the Dietrine Carb Blocker for the same. It won’t simply block damaging carbs, but also help you enjoy your pizza absolutely guilt free.

So, just keep to the tips given above and whip up this sumptuous dessert. It’s certain to satisfy every sweet craving that you might have.

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