Banana Caramel Ice Cream Cake (Banoffee)

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Banana Caramel Ice Cream Cake (Banoffee)

Banana Caramel Ice Cream Cake is a decadent frozen layered dessert with banana, dulce de leche, and vanilla ice creams, crunchy almonds, and toffee bits in a sweet and salty graham cracker crust. It's like a banoffee pie in ice cream form!

Prep Time30

Cook Time10

Freezing Time6

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 474kcal

Author: Cara Lanz

Ingredients

18 graham cracker sheets enough for 3 cups of crumbs
½ cup melted butter
1 ½ cup chopped salted almonds (divided) I used roasted almonds
2 pints softened vanilla ice cream
2 ripe bananas
1 cup dulce de leche sauce (divided) or thick caramel sauce
1 pint softened dulce de leche ice cream or caramel ice cream
1 cup toffee bits (divided)
sea salt

Instructions

Nutty Graham Cracker Crust

Preheat the oven to 325.
In a food processor, pulse graham crackers, ½ cup almonds, and melted butter into fine crumbs.
Lightly press crumbs into the bottom and up the sides of a 9" spring form pan, using the bottom of a glass to press it into the edges.
Bake for 10 minutes and cool completely.

Banoffee Ice Cream Pie

Mash the bananas in a large bowl. Stir in one pint softened vanilla ice cream until combined.
Pour banana ice cream mixture into the crust. Freeze up to an hour or until firm. Because the bananas are room temperature, this layer may take longer to firm up than the others.
Top banana ice cream layer with ⅓ cup dulce de leche and ½ cup chopped almonds.
Spoon one pint softened dulce de leche ice cream over the banana ice cream layer.
Top it with ⅓ cup dulce de leche sauce and ½ cup toffee bits. Freeze for up to an hour or until firm.
Spoon 1 pint softened vanilla ice cream over the dulce de leche ice cream. Top with ½ cup toffee bits and ½ cup chopped almonds. Cover with foil or plastic wrap and freeze for several hours or until completely firm.
Allow banana caramel ice cream cake to sit at room temperature for 5 mintues to slightly soften before cutting.To serve, drizzle the top of the ice cream pie with warm dulce de leche sauce.

Notes

To soften ice cream, set it on the counter for 10-15 minutes or in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.
Be careful not to pack the crust too firmly in the pan or the crust will become hard and difficult to cut.
Allow plenty of time for each layer to freeze before adding the next and for the whole ice cream pie to freeze -- about 6 hours in all.
For the best flavored banana ice cream, use ripe bananas that are just starting to get brown spots on them.
The salted nuts in the graham cracker crust keeps this dessert from being too sweet

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