Another great pudding is banoffee pie, which is often wrongly presumed to be American in origin. |
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For desserts, we plumped for the grape and butterscotch cheesecake, with a touch of ice-cream, and the banoffee pie. |
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We chose the sticky toffee pudding, served with steaming hot custard, and banoffee tart, a delicious combination of banana and toffee flavours. |
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Desserts came on a separate menu and our waitress recommended banoffee pie which we opted for, asking for some ice cream on the side. |
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From an impressive selection of cakes and gateaux Ann asked for what she thought would be banoffee pie. |
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The Banoffee Pie was a small disc of salty-sweet crumbs, topped with a smidgen of toffee and banana under a voluminous cloud of piped cream. |
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Curries, beef and ale pie and pasta dishes formed part of the varied diet and the sweets included cream caramel and banoffee pie, all made on board. |
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The banoffee pie featured dry, stick-to-your-teeth pastry without any flavour of butter and runny toffee which tasted like barely-caramelised condensed milk. |
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Now, for those who don't know, banoffee pie is an amazing creation. |
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Banoffee pie was invented in 1972 in Jevington in East Sussex. |
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