The first memory I have of my son helping me cook, was him slicing bananas for Banana Cream Pie. It quickly became one of his favorite foods, and 30 years later it still is 🙂

This pie has to be made at least 8 hours before serving—I always make it the night before. However, the pie doesn’t keep more than a day or two after that because the bananas begin to turn.

This recipe is only for the filling, you’ll need a baked pie crust to begin, and some slightly sweetened whipped cream to finish.

Choose just ripe bananas—nothing green—but don’t use over-ripe bananas either. Over-ripe bananas will ruin this pie 🙁

Banana Cream Pie

INGREDIENTS

• ½ cup sugar
• 1/3 cup cornstartch
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1½ cups whipping cream
• 1½ cups whole milk
• 3 large egg yolks, whisked together
• 2 Tablespoons butter
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 5 ripe bananas, about 1½ lbs. total, cut into ¼” thick pieces
• 1 baked pie crust-either a short crust or graham cracker
• 1½ cups slightly sweetened whipped cream—to serve, add at last minute
• chocolate shavings for decoration, optional

DIRECTIONS

1. Whisk sugar, cornstarch, and salt in a heavy medium-sized saucepan to combine
2. Still off the heat, gradually whisk in whipping cream, whole milk and whisked egg yolks
3. Once combined, turn on the heat, and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until custard thickens and boils, 6-7 minutes.
4. Remove custard from heat, stir in butter and vanilla
5. Transfer custard to a large bowl and let cool completely, at room temperature for about 90 minutes. Stir the custard occasionally.
6. When custard is cool, stir well until smooth—I occasionally do this with an electric mixer and the paddle attachment for just a minute or so.
7. Now you have a choice you can layer custard, bananas, custard, bananas, custard OR you can gently stir all the sliced bananas into the custard and the pour the jumbled mixture into your baked pie crust—I prefer the latter.
8. CHILL the pie for at least 8 hours, or up to one day.
9. Just before serving, top the pie with whipped cream and possibly chocolate shavings (which I forgot to do in the picture above, so chose yellow sprinkles to indicate this is a Banana Cream Pie. Probably not my best decision 🙂

Thanks for stopping by my kitchen today! Enjoy your pie, it’s a good one 🙂