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Recipe

How to Make Bannoffee Pie in a Secure Unit

By

Garth

Garth writes from a prison in QLD.

Arbi Wiratama via Unsplash

Ingredients

  • ½ bag Farmbake choc-chip cookies
  • 1 pack of Oreos
  • 1 bag of Werther’s Originals
  • 1–2 bananas (one large or two small)
  • Margarine
  • Milk
  • 2 lunch trays

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Method – Base

  1. Separate Oreos into biscuits and cream.
  2. Crush Oreos’ biscuits and choc-chip cookies into a rough powder.
  3. Combine a small amount of margarine with Oreos and cookies.
  4. Press the base into the lunch trays and cook under the grill for roughly 5 minutes until it is set. Place into the fridge.

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Method – Filling

  1. Crush Werther’s as fine as possible.
  2. Melt Werther’s with 2 tablespoons of margarine and a dash of milk.
  3. Cook bananas in their skins until black and leaking.
  4. Carefully combine peeled bananas and melted Werther’s with Oreo centres. Mix till smooth.
  5. Add filling to base and let it set in the fridge.

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Tips

  • Open Werther’s bag corner only, remove the wrappers, then add them back to the bag to crush.
  • Be VERY careful with melted Werther’s and hot bananas.
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