Michelle Darmody: How to make banoffee pie, an easy no-bake dessert

This is a good crowd pleaser after any dinner

Banana and caramel toffee are one of those enduring flavour combinations that still works very well

I remember a time in the 80s when everyone seemed to be making banoffee pie, there was a run on tins of condensed milk, and the dessert was the talk of our Cork town.

Banoffee pie slots into my memories of a time when microwaves were exciting, and kiwi fruit were new and exotic. When first making the sticky dessert we boiled a tin of condensed milk, steaming up the kitchen and creating a burn hazard when trying to open the piping hot metal can t. Today I prefer to heat some butter and sugar and add the condensed milk, boiling it until it is just about to caramelise. It is a much safer option.