#2301 - Peanut Butter Banana Pie

(by Shirley McNevich)

1/3 cup white sugar
1/3 cup cornstarch
1/4 tsp. salt
2 1/4 cups milk
2 beaten egg yolks
2 cups Reese's peanut butter chips
1 tsp. vanilla
1 banana (peeled and sliced into coin shaped pieces)
1 ready-made graham cracker crust
1 - 8oz. Cool Whip (thawed)

In a saucepan add white sugar, cornstarch and salt--stir. Slowly add milk while stirring. Turn heat to medium--cook/stir until boiling, then cook/stir for 1 more minute. Remove from heat--measure out 1/2 cup of the cooked sugar mixture and add it to the beaten egg yolks--stir fast. Pour the egg yolk mixture into the remaining sugar mixture--stir well. Add peanut butter chips and vanilla--stir until chips melt and mixture is smooth. Cool mixture for 15 minutes. Slice banana and arrange pieces in the graham cracker crust. Carefully pour the sugar mixture over the bananas. Place Saran wrap over the top of the pie so that the wrap is touching the sugar mixture. Cool completely. Refrigerate overnight. Remove plastic wrap and frost the pie with Cool Whip before serving.