Vegan Banoffee Pie Recipe | Carnation (2024)

FAQs

Is condensed milk vegan friendly? ›

But sadly, they're not vegan. However, it's easy to make your own dairy-free version at home. All you need to do is make your own condensed milk using coconut milk, sugar, and vanilla extract, and blend it together with frozen vegan chocolate milk, alongside milk cubes, cream, sugar, and more vanilla.

Place 75g butter and 75g dark brown soft sugar into a heavy based, non-stick saucepan over a low heat, stirring all the time until the sugar has dissolved. Add the 397g can of condensed milk. Bring to a rapid boil for about a minute, stirring all the time for a thick golden caramel.

If your banana cream pie is runny, it may be because the pudding mixture was not thickened properly. To fix this, you can cook the pudding mixture over low heat until it thickens, or add a thickener such as cornstarch or tapioca flour.

Canned cream of coconut

Cream of coconut is a great substitute for sweetened condensed milk, giving a hint of tropical flavor. It's dairy-free and can be substituted cup for cup. The thick consistency of cream of coconut closely resembles sweetened condensed milk, allowing for similar richness in many recipes.

Sweetened condensed milk is high in calories and unsuitable for people with cow's milk protein allergy or lactose intolerance. Its sweet flavor may be off-putting for some and doesn't typically serve as a good substitute for regular milk in recipes.

If the cream on top of your banoffee pie is runny it means you haven't whipped it for long enough. Make sure the cream is whipped enough to semi-stiff peaks. You also need to use a thick caramel toffee and not a runny caramel sauce or it won't set in the fridge. Always chill the pie before cutting and serving.

When you add heat to your ingredients, they undergo a chemical reaction known as the “Maillard reaction.” This means that the sugar is cooked to the proper moisture level and caramelization occurs. You know when this happens as the mixture changes colour to a rich brown.

Similar to caramel, butterscotch is made by heating sugar. The main difference between the two is that butterscotch uses brown sugar instead of white. The ingredients are also combined in a slightly different order for butterscotch: your start out by melting butter with brown sugar.

You can toss the sliced or diced banans in a bit of lemon juice before adding them to pie. or you can simply refrigerate them for long before adding to pudding, this may cause cold. Both of the above will restricts the bananas from turning brown. Hope it helps.

Its name, sometimes spelled "banoffi", is a portmanteau combining the words "banana" and "toffee".

What is dulce the leche? ›

Dulce de leche, which literally means "candy made from milk," is a thick and sugary caramel-like sauce that's made by slowly heating sweet milk. The Latin American confection is found in desserts like cakes, cookies, and flan. It's also often used as an ice cream topping or spread for toast or crepes.

Also, Cool Whip contains sodium caseinate, a milk-protein. So no, present day Cool-Whip is not dairy-free. That also means Cool Whip is not vegan. Cool Whip is not exactly keto friendly either.

Almond milk is suitable for sweet dishes, whereas cashew milk can be used in both sweet and savory recipes. Like regular milk, you can heat a nut milk to reduce the water content. This creates an evaporated milk substitute, though it won't be quite as thick as regular evaporated milk.

Nestlé Plant Based Condensed Milk Alternative is made from rice flour and oat flour and is perfect ingredient for delicious vegan baking. It is a great ingredient for creating tasty dairy alternative sweet treats such as cakes, cookies, brownies, cheesecake, caramel slice and more.

The ingredients used in our Carnation Vegan Condensed Milk Alternative are sugar, water, oat and rice flour, sunflower oil. However, we make this in a factory that also produces dairy products so whilst every effort is made to ensure no milk is in the finished product, we can't guarantee this is the case.