Banoffee Cake
Banana, Toffee, Chocolate, Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream; what else could you ask for? This is my cake version of the Classic Banoffee Pie. It is vanilla butter cake, layered with banana toffee filling, coated in vanilla swiss meringue buttercream with chocolate jimmies and topped with dark chocolate ganache.
Here's the recipe for the yummy banana toffee filling:
Banana Toffee Filling
- 2 ripe bananas (pealed diced and tossed in lemon juice)
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 ounces)
- 114g butter (1 stick)
- 110 grams brown sugar
- 2 ounces dark corn syrup
Directions:
Banana Toffee Filling:
Combine sweetened condensed milk, butter, brown sugar and dark corn syrup in a medium sauce pan over medium heat. Once, the butter has melted and sugar dissolved bump up the heat to medium high and simmer the toffee until thickened 5-8minutes. Allow the toffee to cool off the heat and then toss in banana chunks.
This recipe is enough to fill two 6 inch 3 layer cakes
Since most of us will be spending Valentine’s Day at home, I thought some at home table side drama like a Baked Alaska with cotton candy flambé would be just the fun we need! This Baked Alaska is layered with raspberry sorbet, vanilla bean butter cake, vanilla ice cream and fresh raspberries. It is all topped with toasted fluffy pink meringue and a raspberry cotton candy cloud. The whole thing is dosed is flaming rum for dramatic effect.