#3424 - Easy Banana Cream Pie

(by Shirley McNevich)

1 baked 9" pie crust
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
2 cups whole milk
2 egg yolks
1/2 cup softened butter
1 TBSP vanilla
4 bananas
whipped cream OR thawed Cool Whip

Add 2 egg yolks to a small bowl--beat with a fork. In a saucepan over medium heat add 1/2 cup white sugar, cornstarch and milk--cook/stir until boiling. Use a spoon to add a little of the boiling milk mixture to the beaten egg yolks--beat with a fork, then slowly add the egg yolk mixture to the boiling milk mixture while stirring. Turn heat back a little and continue cooking/stirring until mixture thickens.
Remove from heat--add softened butter and vanilla--stir until mixed and smooth. Cool the mixture for 15 minutes. Peel 3 of the bananas and cut them into coin shaped pieces. Add the banana pieces to the milk mixture--stir carefully. Pour the milk mixture into the baked pie crust. Refrigerate until cold. When ready to serve spread whipped cream or Cool Whip over the whole top of the pie. Peel the last banana, slice it into coin shaped pieces and arrange them over the top of the whipped cream/Cool Whip.