This old fashion banana cream pie is made with an old fashion cooked banana pudding and topped with whipped cream and fresh bananas in a flaky pie crust. It’s decadent and delicious!
If you have never made homemade pudding before you are in for a treat! It’s fairly easy to make and results in a smooth, flavorful and rich banana pudding! I also use this pudding recipe not in pies too, but serve it with Nilla wafers or homemade shortbread cookies.
For the pie crust you can use any crust preferred but I would suggest a traditional pie crust. I have a recipe for one here. If you want to use a pre-baked or frozen shell that would work just fine too. You can also use a graham cracker crust if you prefer that too.
What you need to make old fashion banana cream pie:
makes 1 – 9-10 inch pie
- 1 pie crust – cooked and cooled
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup corn starch
- generous pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon banana flavoring
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 egg yolks
- 3 bananas – cut into chunks
- 1 cup whipped cream
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- pinch salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Bake and cool your pie crust.
- To make the pudding: Separate egg yolks into a bowl and set aside.
- In a pot, add milk, cream, powdered sugar, corn starch, salt, banana flavoring and vanilla extract and whisk together.
- Heat over medium heat whisking continuously.
- Once mixture starts to steam, scoop up a little pudding mixture and whisk it into the egg yolks so they come to a warm temperature, this will prevent them from curdling.
- When pudding starts to thicken, add egg yolks and whisk into mixture.
- Remove from heat and pour through a fine mesh strainer to remove any chunks.
- Pour into prepared baked pie shell and chill.
- Add banana chunks on top.
- Add whipped cream, powdered sugar, salt and vanilla to a mixing bowl and whisk together until whipped cream forms stiff peaks.
- Spoon and smooth on top of pie.
- Enjoy!