Sunny Banana Pie Recipes

SUNNY BANANA CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Pulse ⅓ of a box of graham crackers (or 1 package. Mine always come in threes!) in your food processor until they are finely ground. Add in ¼ cup sugar, and 5-6 Tablespoons of melted butter. Mix together and press into your pie pan. Bake at 350 for 5-7 minutes.Once you have your crust prepared (make sure it is cool if you make your own), cut up one banana on top of the crust.
• Slice up one banana and place on prepared crust.
• Mix together the softened cream cheese, milk, and pudding until smooth and thickened. Pour over crust.
• Chill for 2-3 hours. Immediately before serving, slice up remaining banana, arrange on top, and pipe some whipped cream onto top of pie.

HAPPY HOLLY'S BANANA CREAM PIE

Steps:

• For the dough, in a large bowl, combine the flour, granulated sugar, and salt. Sprinkle in the butter pieces and cut them into the flour with a pastry cutter (or 2 knives or your fingertips) until the mixture is crumbly and the pieces are the size of small peas. Mix in 5 tablespoons very cold water and toss with a fork until the dough just comes together.
• Place the dough on the floured counter and knead a few times, just to make a ball. Don't overwork the dough or the crust will be tough! Lightly flour the counter. Flatten the dough into a disk and wrap in plastic. Let it rest in the refrigerator for at least 15 minutes. (If making more than 1 hour ahead, let it rest on the counter for 10 minutes before rolling out.)
• Roll the dough out on a floured surface into a 12-inch circle. Fit into a 9-inch pie plate and trim to a 1/2-inch overhang all around. Fold the overhanging dough under itself and crimp with a fork or your fingers. Chill the pie shell in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Cover the shell with a piece of parchment paper and fill with dried beans or pie weights. Bake on the bottom rack until the crust is set but still blond in color, about 20 minutes. Remove the paper and beans or weights and bake until the crust is golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes more. Let cool completely on a rack.
• For the custard, in a saucepan, combine the granulated sugar, flour, and salt. Add the milk gradually while stirring. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until it begins to bubble. Cook, stirring, for 3 minutes, or until it forms firm peaks.
• Stir a small amount of the hot milk mixture into the beaten egg yolks in a small bowl. This will temper the yolks so they don't turn into scrambled eggs. Stir the tempered yolks back into the rest of the custard. Cook for 2 more minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and stir in the butter and vanilla. Slice 2 bananas into the cooled pastry crust. Top with half of the custard and slice the remaining bananas on top. Top with the rest of the custard. Chill for at least 1 hour.
• For the whipped cream, in a cold bowl with an electric mixer, beat the cream, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla until firm peaks form. Be careful not to overbeat or your cream will turn to butter. Watch as you beat and stop when it gets thick and stays on the beaters when you remove them from the bowl.
• Top the pie with the whipped cream and serve.

SKINNY CREAMY TROPICAL BANANA PIE

Steps:

• For filling: In a heavy medium saucepan, stir together sugar and cornstarch. Gradually stir in milk and evaporated milk. Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir for 2 minutes more. Remove from heat.
• In a medium bowl, gradually stir about 1 cup of the hot mixture into egg. Return all of the egg mixture to saucepan. Cook and stir over medium-low heat for 2 minutes more. Remove from heat. Stir in the 3 tablespoons coconut, the vanilla, and rum extract. Set aside to cool for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Arrange bananas in the bottom of the Gold Medal™ Flour Baked Oil Pastry. Pour in cooled filling. Cover surface with plastic wrap. Chill for 4 hours.
• To serve, spoon whipped topping onto pie and, if desired, top with additional toasted coconut.
• Gold Medal™ Flour Baked Oil Pastry: Preheat oven to 450°F. In a medium bowl, combine 1 1/3 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Using a fork, stir 1/4 cup cooking oil and 3 tablespoons fat-free milk into flour mixture. If necessary, stir in an additional 1 tablespoon milk to moisten (dough will appear crumbly). Form dough into a ball. On a lightly floured surface, slightly flatten dough ball. Roll dough from center to edge into a 12-inch circle. Carefully roll pastry circle around rolling pin. Carefully transfer pastry to a 9-inch pie plate (pastry will be very tender). Ease into pie plate, being careful not to stretch pastry. Trim pastry to 1/2 inch beyond edge of pie plate. Fold under pastry edge and crimp as desired. Prick pastry all over with a fork. Line with a double thickness of foil. Bake for 8 minutes. Remove foil. Bake for 5 to 6 minutes more or until golden.

BANANA CREAM PIE I

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine the sugar, flour, and salt. Add milk in gradually while stirring gently. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture is bubbly. Keep stirring and cook for about 2 more minutes, and then remove from the burner.
• Stir a small quantity of the hot mixture into the beaten egg yolks, and immediately add egg yolk mixture to the rest of the hot mixture. Cook for 2 more minutes; remember to keep stirring. Remove the mixture from the stove, and add butter and vanilla. Stir until the whole thing has a smooth consistency.
• Slice bananas into the cooled baked pastry shell. Top with pudding mixture.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 12 to 15 minutes. Chill for an hour.

BANANA PINEAPPLE DELIGHT

Steps:

• Combine graham cracker crumbs and melted margarine, and pat into bottom of 9x13-inch pan.
• In medium, non-stick saucepan over medium heat, combine remaining margarine, confectioners' sugar, eggs, corn starch and vanilla. Bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Continue stirring, reduce heat and simmer 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool, then spread over crust.
• Peel and slice bananas, dipping each piece in lemon juice to prevent browning, and layer over custard mixture. Layer pineapple on top of bananas. Cover all with whipped topping. Keep refrigerated until serving.

BANANA CREAM PIE IV

Steps:

• Place banana slices in bottom of pie crust.
• In a large bowl, combine milk, pudding mixes and cinnamon. Beat with wire whisk for 1 minute.
• Gently stir in whipped topping to pudding, then spoon mixture into pie crust.
• Cover and refrigerate for 4 hours until pie is set up. When pie is ready serve with caramel topping.

BANANA CREAM PIE

Steps:

• On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim to 1/2 in. beyond rim of plate; flute edge. Refrigerate 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 425°., Line crust with a double thickness of foil. Fill with pie weights, dried beans or uncooked rice. Bake on a lower oven rack until edge is golden brown, 20-25 minutes. Remove foil and weights; bake until bottom is golden brown, 3-6 minutes longer. Cool on a wire rack., Meanwhile, in a saucepan, combine sugar, flour and salt; stir in milk and mix well. Cook over medium-high heat until mixture is thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir for 2 minutes longer. Remove from the heat. Stir a small amount into egg yolks; return all to saucepan. Bring to a gentle boil. Cook and stir 2 minutes; remove from the heat. Add butter and vanilla; cool slightly. , Slice bananas into crust; pour filling over top. Cool on wire rack for 1 hour. Store in the refrigerator. If desired, garnish with whipped cream and additional sliced bananas.

SUNNY BANANA PIE

Steps:

• Slice bananas in pie shell.
• Put the cream cheese in a bowl with 1/2 of the milk and beat until smooth. To this add the pudding and the rest of the milk. Beat 3 minutes. Pour into pie shell over the bananas. If you like you can garnish with graham cracker crumbs or toasted coconut.
• Put into refrigerator until set and ready to serve.

SUNNY BANANA PIE

Steps:

• Slice bananas into crust.
• Slowly add 1/2 cup milk to soften cream cheese.
• Mix until well blended.
• Add pudding mix with remaining milk.
• Beat one minute.
• Pour into crust.
• Chill.
• Garnish with coconut.

BANANA CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Prepare and bake the crust.
• To make the filling, combine 2 cups milk, sugar and salt in a non-reactive saucepan; whisk once to mix and bring to a boil over low heat. Place remaining 1/2 cup milk in a mixing bowl and whisk in cornstarch, then eggs. Return milk and sugar mixture to a boil over low heat then whisk about a third of it into the egg mixture. Return milk and sugar mixture to a boil once more and whisk in the egg mixture, whisking constantly until the filling thickens and comes to a boil. Allow to boil, whisking constantly, for about 30 seconds. Remove from heat, whisk in butter and vanilla; pour into a non-reactive bowl. Press plastic wrap against the surface of the filling and chill until it is approximately 75 degrees. Fold the bananas into the cooled filling and spread it evenly in the cooled crust.
• To finish the pie, whip the cream with the sugar and vanilla until it holds a firm peak. Use a hand mixer on medium speed or a heavy-duty mixer fitted with the whisk. Spread the cream over the filling, making sure it touches the edges of the crust all around.
• To mix the dough by hand, combine flour, salt and baking powder in a medium-sized mixing bowl and stir well to mix. Cut butter into 1-tablespoon pieces and add to dry ingredients. Toss once or twice to coat pieces of butter. Then using your hands or a pastry blender, break the butter into tiny pieces and pinch and squeeze it into the dry ingredients. Keep the mixture uniform by occasionally reaching down to the bottom of the bowl and mixing all the ingredients evenly together. Continue rubbing the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles a coarse-ground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible. Sprinkle the minimum amount of water over the butter and flour mixture and stir gently with a fork -- the dough should begin holding together. If the mixture still appears dry and crumbly, add the remaining water, 1 teaspoon at a time for the smaller quantity of dough, a tablespoon at a time for the larger quantity, until the dough holds together easily.
• To mix the dough in the food processor, combine flour, salt and baking powder in work bowl fitted with metal blade. Pulse 3 times at 1-second intervals to mix. Cut butter into 1-tablespoon pieces and add to work bowl. Process, pulsing repeatedly at 1-second intervals, until the mixture is fine and powdery, resembles a coarse-ground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible--about 15 pulses in all. Scatter the minimum amount of water on the butter and flour mixture and pulse 5 or 6 times -- the dough should begin holding together. If the mixture still appears dry and crumbly, add the remaining water, 1 teaspoon at a time for the smaller quantity of dough,one tablespoon at a time for the larger quantity, until the dough holds together easily.
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and form it into a disk (two equal disks for the larger amount of dough). Sandwich the disk(s) of dough between two pieces of plastic wrap and press it into a 6-inch circle. Refrigerate the dough until firm, or until you are ready to use it, at least 1 hour.

SUNNY'S EASY BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Stir in the orange juice, brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice and bring to a simmer. Slice the bananas and add to the skillet, stirring to coat. Saute until the bananas are tender and the sauce coats them, 2 to 3 minutes. Turn off the heat and add the bourbon. Light the liquid in the skillet with a click lighter and flambe, allowing the flames to subside. Turn on the heat and cook about 1 minute. Serve in bowls, warm, over vanilla ice cream with a sprinkle of nuts.

SUNNY'S BANANA PUDDING "JAR-FAITS"

Steps:

• In a large bowl or stand mixer, add the peanut butter and honey and blend. Add the whipped topping and fold until combined.
• Layer the ingredients evenly in 6 canning jars in this order: wafers, bananas, pudding, wafers, bananas, peanut butter mixture, then repeat. Reserve a few banana slices and use them to top each jar. Refrigerate at least 4 hours until set and chilled. Serve cold.

ULTIMATE BANANA CREAM PIE

Steps:

• For the PASTRY CREAM: Place the yolks, sugar and salt in a mixing bowl and whisk until blended.
• Stir in the cornstarch.
• Heat the milk and vanilla bean (if using) to scalding in a heavy saucepan.
• SLOWLY whisk the milk into the eggs, whisking the eggs constantly.
• This is called"tempering".
• Start out with just a thin stream of milk, constantly whisking, then as the eggs warm up you can add the milk faster.
• You need to do this slowly at first to avoid scrambling the yolks.
• If you do that, you have to start over.
• Remove the vanilla bean and pour the yolk mixture back into the pot and cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens- about 3-5 minutes.
• Remove the pot from the heat and stir in the cream and the vanilla extract (if using).
• Pass the cream through a fine mesh strainer (very important to do!!!), then place a piece of plastic wrap directly on the surface to prevent a skin from forming.
• Refrigerate for at least 2 hours to chill.
• Will keep several days in the refrigerator.
• Make the CHOCOLATE SAUCE: Coarsely chop the chocolate and place in a stainless steel bowl.
• Heat the cream until scalding, pour over the chocolate.
• Let sit 5 minutes before stirring.
• Stir with a whisk until very smooth.
• Serve sauce warm, or refrigerate for later use.
• This will keep for several weeks in the refrigerator.
• MAKE THE PIE: Toss the bananas with the rum and the lime juice- set aside.
• Spread about 3/4 cup of the pastry cream in the pie shell.
• Layer the bananas evenly over the top, then cover with the remaining pastry cream.
• Whip the cream to soft peaks, the gently fold in the cream fraiche.
• Spread this mixture over the top of the pastry cream and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Serve with warm chocolate sauce drizzled over the top.
• NOTE: This pie doesn't keep well.
• You can prepare the pastry cream, chocolate sauce, pie shell all ahead of time, but assemble the pie no earlier than the morning of the day you plan to serve it and keep it refrigerated.
• I've never had leftovers so I don't know how long it keeps after cutting!

QUICK AND EASY BANANA CREAM PIE

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, beat pudding mix and milk on low speed for 2 minutes; beat in vanilla.
• Fold in 3 cups of the cool whip. Pour 1 1/3 cups of the pudding mixture into the prepared pie crust.
• Layer with banana slices and top with remaining pudding mixture.
• Top with remaining cool whip and garnish with additional banana slices if desired. Store in refrigerator before serving.

BANANA PIE

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, mix graham cracker crumbs and sugar. Stir in melted butter. Mix thoroughly, then press mixture into bottom of a 9x13 inch pan.
• Cut bananas into 1/4 inch slices and make a single layer of banana slices on graham cracker crust. Reserve remaining banana slices.
• In a large mixing bowl, whip cream cheese until fluffy. Add pudding mix and whip mixture until smooth. Add milk and mix until all ingredients are thoroughly combined. Pour mixture over layer of bananas.
• Make another layer of banana slices on top of pudding layer. Cover bananas with whipped topping. Refrigerate at least 3 hours before serving. If using banana slices for garnish, toss with lemon juice to prevent browning.