banana creme pie

September 4, 2010
banana creme pie
Attention all baking connoisseurs: look away. This is the easiest, laziest, banana creme pie you've ever seen and you may not want to stoop to my level of store-bought pie crust. I could attribute the "ease" of this recipe to the fact that I wanted 3 year old Raine to help me out, but the real truth is that I didn't have a lot of time and I wanted 3 year old Raine to help me out. The real pie from scratch calls for making your own custard (time consuming) and your own graham cracker crust (buttery and messy) so I took the easy road and made substitutions where I saw fit.

raine helps make pie
everything caving in
a heap of delicious

easy, lazy, banana creme pie

1 graham cracker pie crust
1 box of vanilla instant pudding (the smaller box)
2 cups cold milk
3 bananas
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla

Peel two bananas and slice. Place flat at the bottom of the pie crust until the bottom is covered. Empty the instant pudding contents into a bowl and mix with the cold milk for at least 5 minutes, until the pudding thickens. Layer the pudding on top of the bananas in the pie dish and put the whole thing in the fridge. Place a medium metal bowl and your whisk into the freezer and wait 10-15 minutes until the bowl and whisk are chilled.* Whisk together heavy cream and powdered sugar** until the mixture just begins to thicken. Add vanilla. Continue to whisk until stiff peaks form. Layer on top of the pudding. Chill in the fridge for at least 1 hour. Just before serving, slice up the last banana and decorate the pie.

This pie is not built to stand on its own. It's very likely that every slice will be a blob on banana-creme-graham-cracker-goodness, and that the pie will cave as slices are taken out. You should know that this is normal and okay, because it's delicious.

*This is just a tip to make sure the whipped cream comes together faster and easier for you.
**You can keep adding sugar until you find the sweetness you prefer.

8 comments:

  1. ahh my kind of baking. don't care if it doesn't look pretty as long as it tastes delicious. going to try this out. thanks celeste!

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  2. Yom! i made this for father's day and it is delicious!

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  3. I love easy baking, I will have to give this a try

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  4. yumm! and the little girl is so cute! aww :o)

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  5. Love this! I am catching up on your blog now. I am going to India and then Thailand, Nepal and China (the last 3 are hopefuls ) hahah how are you!?

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  6. ooh that looks so good!!

    and that picture of her sleeping is just toooo cute!

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  7. omg, you got me so damn hungry right now... and ohhh, Raine is so cute when she sleeps : 3

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