Banana Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe

1      Reviews by:    Wilma Overstreet   Banana Chocolate Cream Pie combines unsweetened chocolate, milk, sugar, flour, eggs, butter, vanilla, salt and ripe bananas in a pie shell to create this delicious pie. Food Category:    Pies and Pastries Cuisine Origin:    Southern    Servings: 8 slices Calories: 227 per serving Print Preview Rate This Recipe Prep Time:   25 Minutes Cook Time:   50 Minutes Total Time:   1 Hour, 15 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

• 1 1/2 squares (1 1/2 ounces) unsweetened chocolate
• 2 cups milk
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 5 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
• 1 tablespoon butter or margarine
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 baked 9-inch pie shell or 6 3 1/2 inch tart shells
• 3 ripe bananas

DIRECTIONS

• Melt chocolate in milk in top of double boiler over rapidly boiling water, beating until blended. Mix sugar, flour, and salt. Stir into chocolate mixture. Keep stirring and cook until well thickened. Cook 10 minutes longer, stirring occasionally.
• Stir hot mixture into egg yolks: Cook 1 minute. Add butter or margarine and vanilla. Cool thoroughly. Cover bottom of pie shell with small amount of filling.
• Peel bananas and slice into pie shell. Cover with remaining filling.
• Top with meringue or sweetened whipped cream, if desired. Makes 1 pie or 6 tarts. HOME CHEF'S NOTE: With Pudding Mixes: Packaged commercial pudding mixes of any flavor may be used as filling for this pie. Prepare according to directions on package. Then cool thoroughly and follow the above recipe directions for placing filling and bananas into pie shell.

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