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Banana Cream Pie

Not your typical banana cream pie recipe. Rather than layers of vanilla custard layered with banana slices, this one uses a banana custard made from scratch using real bananas.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 4 hours
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 8

Equipment

  • Medium saucepan
  • Mixing bowls
  • Electric mixer
  • Whisk
  • Spatula
  • Food processor, grinder or food mill

Ingredients
  

  • 1 9 inch baked pie shell, cooled

BANANA CUSTARD

  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 3 bananas, sliced not too ripe
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 cup milk
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • Few drops Yellow food colouring optional

WHIPPED CREAM TOPPING

  • 2 cups whipping cream
  • 2 tablespoons confectioner's sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 tablespoons instant vanilla pudding powder optional

Instructions
 

FOR THE BANANA CUSTARD

  • In a medium saucepan, melt butter over medium low heat. Add bananas and saute for 1-2 minutes or until bananas begin to break down. Mash with fork and remove from heat.
  • Add sugar, milk, cornstarch and salt and mix well. Add egg yolks and stir until well blended. Return to heat and cook on low, stirring constantly until mixture thickens. This should take 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and food colouring ( if using). Cover with plastic to prevent a skin from forming and cool completely.

FOR THE WHIPPED CREAM TOPPING

  • In a large chilled bowl using chilled beaters, whip the cream until soft peaks begin to form. add confectioner's sugar, vanilla and instant vanilla pudding powder, if using. The pudding powder helps stabilize the whipped cream but is completely optional. Continue beating the cream until firm peaks form but do not over whip.
  • Take ½ cup of the whipped cream and fold it into the banana custard until no streaks remain. Fill the baked pie shell with the custard and smooth top. Top custard layer with the whipped cream, swirling with a spatula to form attractive peaks. Chill pie for 2-3 hours before serving.

Notes

If using yellow food colouring, add it sparingly to achieve only a light pale yellow. It is easy to overdo it!
Keyword banana, cream pie, pie