Banoffee Layer Cake

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Banoffee Layer Cake; a sweet and salty creation made with brown sugar banana cake, salted caramel sauce, vanilla cream cheese frosting and toasted pecans!

Every day I grow stronger in my belief that cakes should not be frosted on the outside. A really important issue, I know.

Christina Tosi, of Momofuku Milk Bar fame, first instilled this in me. Even as a lover of icings and frostings of any kind, smothering the outside of a lovingly layered cake just feels wrong now.

banoffee layer cake


To go to all the effort of layering your creations of cake, frosting, soaks and crumbs, to then hide it all behind an infuriatingly un-perfect shell of extra frosting seems counter-intuitive. There is nothing more loathsome when decorating a cake than having to get that mechanical, flawless, blemish-free buttercream exterior.

Also, I’m just exceptionally lazy when it comes to decorating cakes. I’m a baker, not an artist.

banoffee layer cake


THIS CAKE THOUGH. This Banoffee Layer Cake is so much more than just a “Banoffee Layer Cake.”

It’s three layers of soft brown sugar banana cake, a silk sheet of salted caramel sauce, sweet but tangy vanilla cream cheese frosting, toasty pecans and dark chocolate shavings. It’s pure filth, in the best way.

You’ve got fluffy, you’ve got creamy, you’ve got crunchy, you’ve got sweet, you’ve got salty, you’ve got it all.

The cake pictured has been baked and layered up Momofuku Milk Bar style. This method bakes the cake in a wide baking tray before stamping it out and layering everything up inside an acetate-lined cake ring. BUT. Obviously most people don’t have the time, patience or equipment to faff around with this method so I’ve included instructions to bake this into a bangin 2-layer regular sandwich cake as well.

banoffee layer cake

Also, feel free to skip making your own salted caramel sauce. Shops like Lidl have great ready made jars of the stuff to save you some time and effort!

To make this absurdly delicious Banoffee Layer Cake, simply follow the recipe below!

2 Replies to “Banoffee Layer Cake”

  1. Where do you buy a cake ring and acetate from please?

    1. Hi Steph! I got mine from Amazon.

      Cake ring, for example: https://amzn.to/3wo6MUN

      Acetate roll, for example: https://amzn.to/39J9qea

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