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Banoffee pie is a British dessert pie made from , whipped cream, and a thick caramel sauce (made from boiled condensed milk or milk jam), combined either on a pastry case or one made from crumbled cookie and butter. Some versions of the recipe include chocolate, coffee, or both.
The dessert's name, sometimes spelled "banoffi", is a portmanteau combining the words banana and toffee.
The recipe was published in The Deeper Secrets of The Hungry Monk in 1974, and reprinted in the 1997 cookbook In Heaven with The Hungry Monk. Similar recipes were adopted by other restaurants throughout the world. In 1984, several supermarkets began selling it as an American pie, leading Mackenzie to offer a £10,000 prize to anyone who could disprove their claim to be the English inventors. Dowding stated that his "pet hates are biscuit crumb bases and that horrible cream in aerosol spray". It was Margaret Thatcher's favourite food to cook. The Celebrity Cookbook: Kitchen Secrets of the Rich and Famous; Brooks, Marla (1993)
The word banoffee entered the English language, used to describe any food or product that tastes or smells of both banana and toffee. A recipe for the pie, using a biscuit crumb base, is often printed on tins of Nestlé's condensed milk, though that recipe calls for the contents of the tin to be boiled with additional butter and sugar, instead of boiling the unopened tin. This is presumably for safety reasons, as tins of condensed milk bear the warning: "Caution—Do not boil unopened can as bursting may occur."
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