Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie

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Preparation info
  • Yield:

    one

    9 inch Pie
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented

By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Published 2010

  • About

True story: I was haunted by the banana cream pie. For a brief period in my life, it was all I thought about and ate. I tried many variations and made many variations, but I always found something wrong with the recipe. Too sweet. Too grainy. Too slimy. I lay awake at night rethinking the details, reworking the formula in my head.

This recipe is the culmination of all my thoughts and fever dreams, and it is now officially my favorite pie to make and eat. The crust is made with a cla