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Banoffee Pie with White and Dark Chocolate

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,463 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Crush the digestive biscuits finely in a bag with a rolling pin or in a food processor. Melt 75g/2½oz butter and stir it through the crumbs.

  2. Press the buttery crumbs firmly into the base and up the sides of a 20cm/8in loose-bottomed tin or pie dish. Chill for 15 minutes to set.

  3. Melt 100g/3½oz butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in 100g/3½oz caster sugar until dissolved.

  4. Add the 400g/14oz condensed milk and stir over medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes until thick and caramel-coloured. Pour over the chilled base and smooth the top.

  5. Leave the caramel to cool for about 20 minutes, then chill for 20 minutes until firm.

  6. Peel and slice the 2 bananas and arrange the slices evenly over the caramel.

  7. Whip the 250ml/9fl oz double cream to soft peaks and spread or pipe it over the bananas.

  8. Melt the dark and white chocolate separately in short bursts in the microwave or over a bowl of barely simmering water, then drizzle over the pie or grate on top. Chill until serving.

By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,463 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Condensed milk + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together541 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Sugar + chocolatetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, condensed milk, biscuit, cream, chocolate):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, condensed milk, biscuit, cream, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).