Chocolate Coconut Banana Cream Pie and Giveaway

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Ingredients

  • Crust
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup each cocoa powder and granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup sweetened flaked coconut
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup cold, cubed Gay Lea Salted Butter
  • 1 egg yolk
  • Pulse flour with cocoa, sugar, coconut and salt in a food processor. Pulse in butter until finely crumbed. Whisk egg yolk with 2 tbsp ice water; pulse into flour mixture until it clumps together.
  • Press dough evenly into the bottom and 1 1/2 inches up the sides of a 10-inch springform pan. Prick with a fork. Freeze for 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 375°F. Bake, on a lower rack, for 15 minutes or until set. Cool to room temperature.
  • Filling
  • 2 1/2 cups milk
  • 2/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup cornstarch
  • 2 egg yolks beaten
  • 2 tbsp Gay Lea Salted Butter
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 3 bananas, thinly sliced
  • 1 canister Gay Lea Real Coconut Whipped Cream 225g
  • Toasted coconut

Preparation

Step 1

Pulse flour with cocoa, sugar, coconut and salt in a food processor. Pulse in butter until finely crumbed. Whisk egg yolk with 2 tbsp ice water; pulse into flour mixture until it clumps together.

Press dough evenly into the bottom and 1 1/2 inches up the sides of a 10-inch springform pan. Prick with a fork. Freeze for 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 375°F. Bake, on a lower rack, for 15 minutes or until set. Cool to room temperature.

2 egg yolks beaten

Whisk milk with sugar and cornstarch in a heavy saucepan set

over medium heat. Bring to a boil, stirring often, until thickened.

Whisk some of the hot milk mixture into egg yolks. Whisk back into

remaining milk. Cook, whisking, for 1 minute. Remove from heat; stir

in butter and vanilla.

Line cooled shell with bananas. Pour hot filling over top to cover

bananas completely. Cool to room temperature; chill for at least 2

hours or up to 2 days. Just before serving, remove ring and arrange on

serving platter. Pipe coconut whipped cream to cover custard

completely and garnish with toasted coconut.

Makes 8 to 12 servings.

To make individual pies: Divide dough between eight, 5-inch mini pie plates or foil pot-pie pans; pressing evenly into

bottom and up sides. Arrange on a baking sheet; bake for 15

minutes. Cool to room temperature. Divide bananas and custard

between the cooled shells. Chill until set. Garnish with whipped

cream and toasted coconut.

In Ontario here.....my favorite is mom's banana bread! Nothing beats it!

I live in BC and I make a delicious banana bread! So good warm with butter!

I live in Ontario. My favourite banana dessert is banana cream pie. The one my mom makes. Nobody else's is anywhere near as good as hers.

I am from BC, and my 2 favourite banana desserts are banana cream pie, and a blueberry and banana pie with whipped cream that my mom makes. Which reminds me I need to get the recipe from her. I loooove banana desserts, now I am craving them for breakfast! ;-)

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