How did I not know about this? Banoffee Pie!!

I honestly feel like I have truly been left in the dark on this one. Like the whole world was keeping this a secret from me as like a mean joke or something. Okay, so I was watching the Food Network yesterday and Paula Deen was cooking traditional "British pub food." She made the most yummy looking pie, called a Banoffee Pie. Never heard of it....but my roommate, who is from England, knew exactly what she was talking about. This is probably one of the best looking pies I had seen in a long time (almost as good as this smores pie I saw not too long ago....note to self: make smores pie).I am not even a huge pie fan, but this one has my name written all over it.

This decadent pie is a delicious combination of TOFFEE and BANANA. (can you say YUM?) It was first made at The Hungry Monk Restaurant in Jevington, East Sussex in 1972.

While the typical English recipe has a digestive biscuit base (digestive biscuits are out of this world- my roommates brought some back from their trip to England this summer. We even made smores with them...oh baby! Man...I think I need to make smores. I can't stop talking about them)

the American version uses a graham cracker crust (I could eat this part- melted butter and graham cracker crumbs all by itself any day of the week!) Basically, the pie is gooey toffee/Caramel with bananas and whipped cream. This will be my next baking adventure. I will report back to see if it truly is as good as they say it is. Cheers!

Paula's Home Cooking recipe

FYI....after doing even more research, I see that there are recipes for Banoffee Cheesecake and even Banoffee Häagen Dazs in the UK