Banoffee Cheesecake

Photo: The Moonblush Baker

Here goes – this is a deep dish cheesecake with a biscuit base and sides, a banana cheesecake filling, layer of caramelised banana, layer of toffee and finished off with a meringue topping. Sounds pretty amazing doesn’t it?

What is banoffee? There’s a flavor clue in the name.

“Ban” from banana and “offee” from toffee. Banana toffee! A match make in heaven.

There are a couple of things I particularly like about this Banoffee Cheesecake recipe.

One is that it uses fresh bananas in the cheesecake, not banana flavoring.

Another is the biscuit base and sides. The recipe suggests using dried fig and wheat biscuits. The dried figs have a natural toffee taste which complements the toffee layer and caramelised bananas perfectly.

Of course, if you can’t get your hands on biscuits with dried figs, you can make with a plain biscuit base instead. It will still be utterly delicious.

Watch the depth of the pan you use. This is a pretty tall cheesecake. You can buy deep spring-form pans for creations like this. The good thing about the deep pans is that you can bake regular cakes and cheesecakes in them, but for those special, extra deep cakes like this, you’re all set. This is a good example of what I mean: Deep Spring Form Cake Pan

This sensational Banoffee Cheesecake recipe is from the lovely Belinda at The Moonblush Baker.

Banoffee Cheesecake Recipe

 

Ingredients

For the cheesecake base:

• 300g dried fig and wheat bran crackers.
• 90g butter, melted

For the cheesecake:

• 500g cream cheese
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp lemon zest
• 3 overripe bananas
• 100g raw caster sugar

For the toffee topping:

• 50g golden syrup
• 200g double cream
• 80g brown sugar
• 125 g butter

For the caramelised bananas:

• One large banana
• 50g raw caster sugar

For the Italian meringue:

• 20g water
• 150g white caster sugar
• 100g egg white

Instructions

1. For the full recipe visit: Banoffee Cheesecake.

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