Caramelized cake with bananas

Gentle, melts in the mouth, for everyday life and for a holiday! Caramelized cake with bananas is one of the options for making the famous English dessert called "Banoffi Pie". The combination of caramel, bananas, shortbread and the most delicate cream is simply incomparable!

Nick

Recipe author

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

For the base:

Shortbread cookies

250

Butter

120

For caramel:

Sugar

200

Fat cream (33%)

Butter

Salt (1 pinch)

to taste

For banana filling:

Bananas

For cream:

Fat cream (33%)

200

Cream cheese

200

Powdered sugar

Syrup (homemade caramel)

For sprinkling:

Chocolate

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 8 % 5 g

Fats 39 % 25 g

Carbohydrates 53 % 34 g

402 kcal

GI: 6 / 44 / 50

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 3 h 30 min

Step 1:
How to make a caramelized cake with bananas? Prepare the products. Cookies will suit any shortbread, such as Jubilee. Cream must be fat, at least 33%, natural and high-quality. Also butter, choose a product without milk fat substitutes.
Step 2:
Prepare the sand base for the cake. Chop the cookies into crumbs using a meat grinder or blender. You can use a rolling pin. Melt the butter in any available way and cool it. Combine the cookie crumbs with the melted butter and mix them thoroughly so that all the crumbs become wet.
Step 3:
Take a detachable pastry ring for the future cake, set a diameter of 18 centimeters and pour crumbs soaked in oil inside. Tamp the crumbs, forming the bottom and sides of the future cake. Put the mold with the base in the refrigerator for 2 hours. If there is no pastry ring, you can also use a baking dish with a small diameter.
Step 4:
Prepare the caramel. Pour granulated sugar into a saucepan with a thick bottom, put the pan on fire and melt the sugar until it completely dissolves and acquires a beautiful amber color.
Step 5:
Reduce the heat, pour in the heated heavy cream and mix. Remove the pan from the heat, add the butter and stir until completely dissolved. Add salt and boil the caramel for another 2 minutes over low heat. Cool the caramel to room temperature,
Step 6:
Put the cooled caramel on the sand base, setting aside 1 tablespoon for the cream.
Step 7:
Peel the bananas and cut them into circles. Place the sliced bananas on top of the caramel.
Step 8:
Prepare the cream. Beat the cooled cream into a strong foam, starting with small turns and gradually moving to the maximum. Gradually, in the process of whipping, enter powdered sugar into them.
Step 9:
Using a mixer, mix the soft cream cheese and the left-over caramel.
Step 10:
Gently mix the whipped cream with caramel cream cheese with a silicone spatula.
Step 11:
Put the resulting cream on a layer of bananas, sprinkle the top of the cake with chocolate chips on top. Put the cake in the refrigerator for 2 hours to cool and stabilize. Then serve to the table. Bon appetit!

To prepare cream as a soft cheese, I recommend using Philadelphia or Mascarpone cheese, you can also use other curd cheeses, but they must be soft. They can even be a little salty, which will give an additional zest to this dessert.
You can also add a pinch of salt to the sand base. Another very interesting cooking option would be to add crushed salted straws to the sand crumbs. In general, there is still a place to turn around!

How to whip cream properly? It is important that the cream is fat, at least 33%. The whipping dishes and the cream themselves should be cold, keep them in the refrigerator for at least 1-2 hours. Beat with a mixer at minimum speed, gradually increasing the speed. How do I know if the cream is whipped enough? The creamy mass should retain its shape and not spread. At this point, stop whipping. Otherwise, the cream will turn into butter.

Butter can be melted in the microwave or in a water bath. How to melt butter in the microwave? Cut the butter into small pieces and place it in a special container. To prevent the oil from splashing when heated, cover the oil vessel with a paper towel. The oil should be melted either at the lowest power or in defrosting mode. At first, five seconds will be enough. Next, if the butter has not melted yet, set it again for 5 seconds and start the microwave. Repeat the process several times until the desired result.
How to melt butter in a water bath? You will need two containers of different diameters. Pour water into a large one and put it on the stove. Place the smaller container on top so that it is submerged in water by about half. Put the sliced butter into it. Under the influence of boiling water, the oil will begin to melt. Stir the oil slightly to speed up the process. As soon as the pieces of oil are completely dissolved, remove the container from the stove.

Important! The size of the mold must match the number of ingredients. If you do not have a shape of a diameter suitable for the recipe or you want to bake a pie or a cake of a larger or smaller size, an article about how to make the right calculations and not make a mistake will help, how to choose the shape of the desired diameter .