Banana Cream Pie in a Jar

By Hollywood

Ingredients

• Meringue:
• {filling}
• 1/3 cup flour or 1/4 cup corn starch (I used corn starch)
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups milk, scalded
• 3 slightly beaten egg yolks (keep the whites for the meringue)
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1-2 bananas, depending on taste
• 3 egg whites
• pinch cream of tartar
• 6 tablespoons sugar

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from rileymadel.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

Mix the flour, sugar and salt together. Scald the milk. Pour milk into the dry ingredients.

Place the mixture onto the stove on medium heat. Stir constantly (don't take your eyes off of it) until it thickens and boils.

Cook 2 minutes longer and then remove from heat.

Add a little bit of the mixture into the eggs. (Snippet's notes: this is so the eggs don't cook) Add the egg mixture to the big mixture and cook for another minute or two.

Remove filling from the stove and add the butter and vanilla.

Mash 1-2 bananas and fold them into the filling mixture. Cool slightly before spooning into jars.

For the meringue topping, beat the egg whites in a mixer on high until light and fluffy. Add a pinch of cream of tartar and the sugar.

Heat the oven to 250˚. Spoon the meringue topping onto the jars as the topping. Place the jars on a cookie sheet and slide into oven on the middle rack. Cook for 5 - 10 minutes or until meringue looks toasted.