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Banana Pudding Pie


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  • Author: Elizabeth Farr
  • Total Time: 4 hours 25 minutes
  • Yield: 20 large slices 1x

Description

Classic banana pudding gets a revamp in this sheet pan pie made with a homey peanut butter cookie crust.  It has all the big generous charm of old school BBQ desserts you’d get at proper gas station barbecue joint in Texas or at a Midwest cafeteria.  What ever happened to those places?!


Ingredients

Scale

Peanut Butter Cookie Crust

  • 2 stick of butter (227 g), at room temperature
  • 1 cup brown sugar (213 g)
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar (100 g)
  • 1 cup smooth peanut butter (256 g)
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla paste or vanilla extract
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour (260 g)
  • 1 cup quick oats (80 g)
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Filling

Topping

  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 1/3 cup powdered sugar (40 g)
  • 3 jumbo marshmallows


Instructions

Make the peanut butter cookie crust

  1. Beat the butter and the sugars, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt until smooth in a stand mixer or with a hand mixer. 
  2. Add in the peanut butter, egg, and vanilla and beat until smooth. adding egg and vanilla to cookie batter
  3. Add in the flour and oats and mix just until the flour disappears.

Press the crust into the pan

  1. Scoop the peanut butter cookie dough in the middle of a parchment

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    -lined sheet tray.
  2. Use a large offset spatula

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    or a dough scraper

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    to press the dough into the bottom of the sheet tray.
  3. Cover the dough with a piece of plastic wrap and bring the crust up the sides of the pan to leave room for the filling. Freeze the crust for 15 minutes.

Make the pastry cream

While the crust is baking, make a batch of vanilla pastry cream.

Bake the crust

  1. Poke the crust all over with a fork. Bake the crust at 350 F for 18-20 minutes until it feels set and the edges are beginning to brown.
  2. Press down on the crust with another sheet tray to flatten the crust slightly.

Assemble the pie

  1. Place a bowl for whipping the cream in the freezer while you assemble the pie.
  2. Slice enough bananas to cover the peanut butter crust.
  3. Smooth the pastry cream over the layer of bananas.
  4. Warm up the marshmallows in a small cup for about 30 seconds in the microwave–long enough for the marshmallows to expand but not harden.
  5. Place the marshmallows, cream, powdered sugar and vanilla in the chilled bowl and whip everything until the cream holds its shape. stiff peaks on heavy cream

Finish the top of the pie

  1. Smooth the whipped cream over the pastry cream. Add a few more sliced bananas over the top of the pie and sprinkle the whole thing with cinnamon. 
  2. Cover the pie with an upside down sheet tray and place in the fridge to chill for at least 4 hours before serving.
  3. To serve, cut the pie into rows of slices.  20 slices (5×4 grid) makes for good-sized portions.
  4. Keep any leftovers covered in the fridge for up to 3 days.

Notes

On banana ripeness: The best bananas for this are ones that aren’t dead ripe, like the ones you’d use for banana bread.  Ideally for the best texture and flavor, bananas that are fully yellow or yellow with a few dark spots are the best here.  Personally, I love the firmness and less sweet green bananas, and if you do, you are my people!

Chocolate banana cream pie: Swap out the vanilla pastry cream with chocolate pastry cream.

  • Prep Time: 25 minutes
  • + 4 hours chilling time:
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Category: Pies
  • Method: Baking, Stovetop
  • Cuisine: American