Friday Favorites-Milka chocolate!

Anyone who knows our family, knows that food is really one of our main love languages. We love good food, and we love good chocolate...so for my Friday Favorite I will highlight my favorite chocolate bar that you can find around these parts..MILKA!
We chop it for cookies...
We melt it to dip our fruits in...

and we also eat it in bulk just by the bars! There are too many different types of Milka chocolates to name, but my favorite is the Zartherb, which is the dark chocolate. It is creamy, rich and just plain D-lish! :) ( Yep, I'm on a chocolate high right now, and that is why I am rhyming things with words like D-lish)

I'll leave you with a recipe that I made today using the Milka bar to add the finishing touch to my Banoffee pie... a recipe that my friend Wilma gave me:

Start by removing the labels from 2 cans of sweetened condensed milk and submerge them in water, making sure to cover the entire can

Boil for the next 3 hours...yep, I wrote that right...3 hours, making sure to keep the cans fully covered in water, so they don't EXPLODE!
Sometime during those 3 hours...take your butter cookies or graham crakers(whatever your country offers) and crush them in your food processor...

then add some pecans, and continuing crushing until you make a fine crust...
add some melted butter to your cookies and pecans and then pat it into your pie dish and bake it until it turns golden brown...
ok...3 hours have gone by, yep..3! But look what happens to your sweetened condensed milk...it turns into a rich caramel sauce! Just be careful when you remove your cans from the boiling water and be sure to have a towel nearby when you open your cans...as the carmel wants to oooze out all over the place...
pour your cans of carmel over your crust and let it cool for awhile...once cool, add a layer of cut bananas over the top of your caramel...

now beat some whipping cream...cover your pie or just add a dollop to your piece, whatever you are in the mood for...
then bring out the Milka dark chocolate...(unless you don't live in Austria)
use a grater to shave a bar until it covers your whipped cream to your liking...

now grab a fork and DIG IN my friend! It is D-lish! Yep, still on my chocolate high...

Banoffee Pie (recipe from Wilma Graham)

Boil 2 unopened cans of sweetened condensed milk for 3 hours. Make sure the cans stay completely covered in water, or they could explode.

Crust:

About 12 cookies or 7 "Digestive biscuits" is what she uses, crushed

1/2c chopped pecans

1/2c melted butter

Mix and press into the bottom of a pie pan. Bake at 350 until golden brown.

Spread the toffee/caramel over the crust.

Cut up about 3 bananas and put over the toffee. Top with whipped cream (use about 2-3T of sugar and 1/2 t of vanilla to sweeten your whipped cream)

After putting on the whipped cream, shave dark chocolate pieces or sprinkle with cocoa powder