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Feasting on Romantic Comedy – Banoffee Pie from Babyville by Jane Green

By Novelicious


P1130298“We dipped into dips and exchanged our stories.
Shared our secrets. Laughed over linguine and bonded over banoffee pie.”

Sometimes you meet another person that you just click with. I'm not talking lover, boyfriend or future husband here. I'm talking friend. A friend you know is going to be come one of your great friends.

This is what happened to Maeve and Stella in Babyville by Jane Green. Maeve instinctively knew Stella was her kind of woman. As Maeve's private life explodes, her gut feelings were proved correct. Stella was there for her and Maeve loves the warmth and intimacy you gain from a good friend. 

Maeve and Stella haven’t
had this female warmth in their life for a while, if ever, because they’ve both
been busy with their careers. The closeness of sharing a banoffee pie with Stella
reveals how much the two like each other. 

You don’t share a desert with just
anyone. This simple act of bonding,
this simple act of scraping out the toffee and banana together, not worrying if
your spoons collide, says so much about a relationship.

You don’t worry if this woman
thinks you’re a slob or that you’re being greedy.  Because this woman, this special friend, is doing
exactly the same thing.

This very act of sharing a desert shows warmth and true friendship. 


Banoffee pie, perfect for
sharing with your best female friend.



Babyville

Makes a generous pie for two – eat straight from the pie dish. Just add two
spoons.

FOR THE BISCUIT BASE

100g
biscuits (hobnobs or digestives)

20g butter

FOR THE CARAMEL SAUCE

125g caster
sugar

2 tbsp
water

70ml double
cream

20g butter

FOR THE CREAM TOPPING

1 banana

100ml
double cream

1 heaped tsp
icing sugar

1 tsp
vanilla extract

EQUIPMENT

Small greased baking dish or pyrex dish (for
two persons), heavy bottomed pan, jug, whisk.

 

METHOD

  • Heat oven
    to 180°C/160 Fan. 
  • Bash the
    biscuits into crumbs with the end of a rolling pin in a bowl.
  • Melt the
    butter and stir in. 
  • Tip the
    buttered biscuit crumbs into the baking dish and press down hard with the back
    of a spoon. 
  • Bake in the
    oven for ten minutes. 
  • In the
    meantime pour the sugar into a heavy bottomed pan and add two tablespoons of
    water. Heat gently
    until the sugar is dissolved, then turn up high. 
  • After around five minutes it
    will start to go brown. As soon as it does so remove from the heat. 
  • Stir in the
    butter and cream (gently, it’ll bubble up) and pour into a jug so it stops
    cooking. 
  • When the
    biscuit base has finished in the oven, remove and allow to cool. 
  • Pour over
    the cooled caramel and place in the fridge to set. After an
    hour remove and slice the banana over the caramel. 
  • Whip the
    cream, add the sugar and vanilla and pour over the top. 
  • Grate some
    dark chocolate to finish.

 

Bon appetite!

Filed Under: Feasting on Romantic Comedy, Helen Redfern

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