Just one of those lazy banoffee days...

Good evening all!!
I'm not sure who paid the Sun King, but Scottish skies today were glorious - not a cloud in sight and enough blue to make a sailor a pair of trousers - most welcome as today we had friends over for a gorgeous Sunday lunch - and I think I can vouch that a wonderful foodie afternoon was had by all! (marinating ourselves slowly with cheese and wine in the sunshine was definitely my favourite part...)
So today I have for you a few sunny photographs and a delightfully kitschy dessert recipe - one of my all time favourites - banoffee pie! I have to confess that at first I got my butter measurements completely skewered and melted 200g of melted butter into 200g of digestives, with interesting results and much cursing taking place as I actually read the recipe! Anyway...

You need:
200g butter
250g digestives/plain biscuits
Can of dulche de leche or premade caramel (roughly 375ml)
4 bananas
300ml double cream
25g dark chocolate for grating!
A flat tin with a removable bottom
Melt your butter in a bowl in the microwave, and place your digestives in a plastic bag and them beat them to a fine pulp with a rolling pin - this is a great stress reliever! Mix your biscuits into the butter until it's all absorbed and then flatten the mixture into the tin so you've formed the base for your pie. Onto this, spread your dulche de leche, and then, if you are making it the day before, let these two layers set slightly in the fridge - mine chilled overnight which made for a firm base. Next, slice your bananas into pennies and place these on top of the caramel in concentric circles. Whip your cream slowly using a hand mixer (doing it the old fashioned way will give you unbelievable armache, honestly.) and then fold it over the bananas so it becomes your fourth layer. I grated some dark chocolate over the top of the pie, but you could decorate with left over banana pennies if you fancied. You can serve it at room temperature for softer caramel or pop it back in the fridge - whatever tickles your fancy!

After lunch we all staggered out into the garden for cheese and grapes (two of my favourite foods) and I spent the rest of the afternoon in a Cambozola-fuelled haze, soaking up the sun.

I hope you've all had beautiful days - I'm going to polish off the last of that pie!
Love,
Eloise xxx