The banana cream pie, filled with pudding and bananas is the quintessential comfort food. You can assemble one quickly, filling a pie crust with purchased vanilla pudding, and topping it with bananas, but a homemade filling is almost as easy. The perfect banana cream pie filling is cool and creamy, and not too sweet. This delectable dessert is simple to make! This page will teach you, step by step, how to make banana cream pie.
Step 1: What You Need for Banana Cream Pie
- Baked single pie pastry crust or graham cracker crust
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups milk
- 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 ripe bananas
How to Make Banana Cream Pie
This video posted by Howcast on YouTube gives an alternative method of how to make a banana cream pie. This recipe uses 2 cups of milk, 3/4 cup of sugar and 3 tbsp. of cornstarch. With this method, we first heat the milk in a saucepan, almost to a boil. Then combine the sugar, cornstarch and salt in another saucepan and add the heated milk, stirring until it thickens.
Step 2: How to Make Banana Cream Pie
- Combine the sugar, flour and salt in a saucepan.
- Stir in the milk, and cook over low heat, stirring constantly until thickened.
- Add the egg yolks one at a time, stirring after each addition.
- Continue to cook the custard, stirring constantly, for three minutes.
- Remove from heat and stir in the butter and the vanilla.
- Let cool for 15 minutes, then pour into the prepared crust.
- Refrigerate for at least 4 hours, until thoroughly chilled.
- Immediately before serving, slice bananas and arrange slices on top of pie.
- Serve with whipped cream, if desired.
Step 3: Banana Cream Pie Variations
- Coat a pastry crust with a layer of white chocolate and chill before adding the custard filling to keep the crust from getting soggy.
- Add a teaspoon of banana extract to the custard to accentuate the banana flavor of the pie.
- Add 1 tablespoon of dark rum to the whipped cream.
How to Make Pie
Stacey Hicks and Mahalo.com bring you how to make pie. Hicks gives all the tips, advice and techniques you will need to make a great pie. This video is part of a series of videos devoted to bakery/cooking, which are published on the Mahalo.com channel of YouTube.
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Gather the ingredients you need for your pie.
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Arrange banana slices on top of pie for a finished look.
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Add whipped cream as a tasty topping.
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Consider variations to spice up your pie.
