Chocolate Banoffee Pie (No Bake Recipe)
Chocolate Banoffee Pie is a twist on the classic British Banoffee Pie. I decided to add a layer of chocolate ganache and it was a huge success!
This is a recipe I created in honor of Joan Hayes, the founder of Chocolate, Chocolate and More–a blog dedicated to all things chocolate. Sadly, Joan suddenly passed away in October, leaving behind three young children.
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Although I never met Joan, I know the kind of recipes she liked, and I’m sure she would have loved this one: it’s a quick, easy to make dessert which contains not only chocolate, but caramel and cream. It’s fabulous!
You may recall, I recently posted my own version of a traditional Banoffee pie, which I’d been wanting to share with you for ages.
Well, when I made the pie, I couldn’t help but imagining another layer on top of the caramel: a rich chocolate ganache. After tasting this version, I like it even more than the original, and it looks more spectacular, too!
Chocolate Banoffee Pie
You won’t even believe how simple this chocolate banoffee pie is to make. If you use a ready-made pie crust and already caramelized condensed milk, there’s almost no cooking involved! Just slice bananas to arrange on the bottom of the crust, pour on the caramel, then the ganache.
Then all that’s left to do is to top it with freshly whipped cream. You don’t even need to pipe it if you don’t want to, and you can cover the entire top if you like; easy-peasy! Sprinkles are also optional.
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Thank you! You were right about the heat. Third batch worked, my friends loved the banoffee pie. Me too.
Perfect! So glad it worked and yes, another thin layer would correct the entire problem! So glad they turned out well! Thank you for coming back to let me know, too! :)
I made two banoffee pies last night for a dinner party we are having tonight. Some of my friends don’t eat chocolate, so on one pie I covered the top with fresh blue berries. This is the second time that I have made chocolate ganache, and both time I failed . Instead of the glistening lake of chocolate, it appears as the chocolate and the cream or fat solids separated, leaving a zebra-like dull appearance. I will try to make it look a little better by adding a little more ganache, but don’t want to make another imperfect batch. What am I doing wrong?
Oh dear, I’m so sorry to hear this, Matt. I have never had this happen, so I did a quick google search after my mother suggested that heat might be the reason. I’ll link to the site at the end, but in short, I think you are melting the chocolate and cream with the temperature too high. Here are two suggestions: obviously, heat the ingredients over lower heat, but the other is using a double boiler (a heatproof glass bowl on top of a pot with some water in it-it shouldn’t touch the bottom of the bowl) kept on the burner at a low simmer.) I would also mention that I always use really good quality chocolate (never Hershey’s or Nestle’s chocolate chips) and heavy whipping cream (I look for cream without a lot of additives). This could make a difference in the outcome, too. Good luck! Here’s the link: https://goo.gl/96EoaE
DREAM pie is more like it!! <3 This is so beautiful, what a treat!
Good call! haha!
Banoffee Pie is one of my favourite desserts ever!! Love the fact you’ve added chocolate! What a fantastic way to switch a normal Banoffee pie up!
It’s sooo tasty!
I was in a mentoring group with Joan but never had the opportunity to meet her. It was horrifying to hear about her death. Kudos to you and the others for keeping her site alive and helping her kids out in that way. The pie … oh my gosh; that pie. It’s amazing.
Thank you Christiane.
Oh my goodness, this looks incredible!! The top of that filling looks like glistening lake of chocolate, WOW! I’ve never had banoffee pie, somehow I’ve just never had the opportunity, and this looks soooo good! Heading over to CC and More right now to check it out :)
I had this same thought! A reflective chocolate lake surrounded by snow-capped cream mountains :P Seriously perfect!
I should have stuck a toy ice-skater on top! haha!
I never had the privilege of meeting Joan either, but from all the many comments I’ve read from other bloggers, I know two things for sure: she was a very special woman, and she dearly loved wonderful chocolate recipes. This is a lovely tribute to her, and I have to imagine she would have adored it. Such a fantastic idea to add that layer of rich chocolate ganache! And yes – I hope all of your readers who drool over this fantastic recipe post will head to Joan’s site and support her work there, too. What a nice post – for so many reasons.