Banana Cream Pie 7.18 Hay Bale Maze

“Okay, cherry pie, banana cream pie, and strawberry-rhubarb pie.” “Great!” “I just figured, if we're gonna do pie, we might as well do pie.” “Let's do pie.” “Let's do pie.”

Ingredients:

For the crust:

• 2 cups vanilla wafer crumbs

• ⅓ cup brown sugar

• ½ cup melted butter

For the filling:

• 2 ripe bananas

• 2 tbsp heavy cream

• 2 14-oz cans sweetened condensed milk

• 4 egg yolks

• ½ tsp cinnamon

• ½ tsp salt

For the whipped cream:

• 1 cup heavy cream

• ¼ cup powdered sugar

• ½ tsp vanilla

For assembly:

• 2 ripe bananas sliced

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Grease a 13-inch pie pan with butter or cooking spray.

3. Prepare the vanilla wafer crust by combining the crumbs, brown sugar, and melted butter in a medium mixing bowl.

4. Transfer the crumb mixture to the prepared baking dish and pack to form a crust.

5. Bake at 350 F for 10 minutes. Then remove from oven and allow to cool.

6. While the crust cools, prepare the filling by adding the bananas and cream to a food processor and blend until smooth.

7. Transfer the banana puree to a large mixing bowl and add the sweetened condensed milk and mix until well combined.

8. Add the yolks one at a time, mixing in between. Then mix in the cinnamon and salt.

9. Add the pie filling to the crust (you may have a little left over). Then bake at 350 for about 30-35 minutes or until the center jiggles only slightly.

10. Allow the pie to completely cool and while it cools, prepare the whipped cream by adding the ingredients to a large mixer and whipping until soft peaks form.

11. Transfer the whipped cream to a piping bag with a star tip and decorate the top of the pie with the whipped cream and sliced bananas.

Rory buys three pies from Weston’s, but I didn’t want to make that many. So I had my friend, Kaeleen, pick which flavor I made, and she went with the banana cream. And let me tell you, this was the best pie I’ve ever had, which I was not expecting. I like bananas, but I was not expecting this dessert to send me into the heavens. AND this dish has worked its way into my top 5 favorites of this project. I think I get why the Magnolia bakery banana pudding has so many people over the moon now; banana desserts can be top tier if you do them right!

This pie tastes like banana pudding, banana bread, and banana cream pie all rolled into one. I made the crust out of vanilla wafers because what cookie goes better with banana? I didn’t make a traditional custard filling. Instead, I made a creamy banana filling that’s baked in the crust and topped with a homemade whipped cream and more bananas.

Happy cooking from the Hollow!

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