Chocolate–Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie

Name: Chocolate–Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: US & Canada
Ingredients: 5 ripe, bananas; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 2 1/2 cups plus 1 1/2 tablespoons, half-and-half; 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces; 99 grams) plus 2 tablespoons, granulated sugar; 6 , large egg yolks; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 3 tablespoons, cornstarch; 1 1/2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 1 , Pillsbury Just Unroll! Pie Crust; 4 ounces (113 grams), milk chocolate, chopped; 1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons chopped, salted, dry-roasted peanuts; 2 tablespoons, orange juice; 1 cup, heavy cream; 2 tablespoons, creamy peanut butter; 2 tablespoons, confectioners' sugar

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2012

Desserts or Baked Goods

We wanted to have our silky-smooth, creamy banana cream pie and slice it, too. The impossible dream?

SERVES8

TIME1½ hours, plus 40 minutes steeping, 1½ hours cooling, and 5 hours chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

This layered concoction of pastry cream and sliced bananas topped with whipped cream is often delicious and sometimes sliceable, but very rarely both. Using too much starch for stability resulted in a chalky, stodgy pastry cream. Instead, w...

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