Banana Cream Pie is easy to put together and tastes wonderful. You can make a banana cream pie anytime with our recipe. We were asked to remove the name of the restaurant from this recipe, I guess we were too close on this one!
Banana Cream Pie
Marie Callender's Banana Cream Pie
You can make an old-fashioned restaurant-style banana cream pie like Marie Callender's with this easy copycat recipe.
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Servings: 8
Calories: 502kcal
Ingredients
Banana Cream Pie Crust and Filling
- 1 9-inch pastry pie crust, baked and cooled
- 2 bananas sliced
- 1/4 cup whipped cream cheese softened
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups evaporated milk
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk
- 4 egg yolks, beaten
- 2 tablespoons butter softened
- 1/8 cup sliced almonds
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Fresh Whipped Cream Topping
- 3/4 cup chilled whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Banana Cream Pie Crust and Filling Directions
- Place sugar, cornstarch, salt, evaporated milk, and whole milk in a 2-quart saucepan. Stir to combine.
- Cook over medium heat stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils for 1 minute.
- Remove the pan from the heat and slowly pour half of the hot mixture into eggs and stir until that mixture is completely incorporated.
- Pour the egg mixture into the pan with the other half of the pudding and continue to cook on medium heat until it begins to boil again.
- Add cream cheese and mix thoroughly with a hand mixer. It will dissolve the cream cheese better and make the pudding lighter and creamier.
- Remove the pan from the heat and add vanilla and butter. Mix using the hand mixer until all is blended.
- Let the filling stand for 15 minutes.
- While the filling is still warm, pour half of the filling into pie crust.
- Place banana slices on top of the filling.
- Pour the remainder of the filling on top.
- Cool the pie completely. Do not put whipped cream on a warm pie because it will melt the topping.
- Top the pie with fresh whipped cream and garnish with sliced almonds.
Fresh Whipped Cream Topping Directions
- Pour chilled whipping cream into a glass or metal bowl and beat until soft peaks form.
- Gradually add powder sugar until all has been blended.
- Add vanilla slowly until it has also been blended. The whipped cream should have stiff peaks.
- Spread the whipped cream over the pie. The whipped cream may be put into a pastry bag and piped onto the pie for a decorative effect.
Nutrition
Calories: 502kcal | Carbohydrates: 52g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 28g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Cholesterol: 162mg | Sodium: 379mg | Potassium: 416mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 30g | Vitamin A: 855IU | Vitamin C: 4.3mg | Calcium: 223mg | Iron: 1.2mg
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I just made this and I have a few things to say about it. This is a good pie and it is the kind of pie my grandmother would have made, totally a classic banana cream pie.
As I made the custard, I added the vanilla. I tasted it and I wondered what it would be like if I added banana flavoring. I added about 1/2 teasoon of banana flavoring. In general, it was not a good idea. The banana flavoring seemed to throw it off balance and I had to add a few tablespoons of sugar to bring it back. So, if you want to try adding banana flavoring, only add a hint…and if you go to far a few spoon fulls of sugar might help. But don’t go to far on the sugar, this pie is not meant to be super sweet.
Next, I used the smaller sized store bought graham pie crust. The graham part of the crust was fine, but next time I would use the larger size of store bought crust. The banans and whiped cream make this pie and I added extra layers of bananas and a thick topping of whipped cream (I used cool whip to save time).
Lastly, what I would say is that this is not a pie I would make for a pot luck. I would just make it to have at home. This pie is a bit messy to slice and pull out (especially if you cheat like me and add extra layers of bananas). If you want to do something with banans for a pot luck, a banana pudding you can spoon out is a better choice.
Over all a good not too sweet pie to serve on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Stephanie
It is amazing how a tiny change in a recipe than through off other parts of it. I bet this would be good with a tiny bit of banana flavoring. I appreciate the changes you made the to the pie. This pie was to mimic Marie Callendars, and they did not add the extra layers of bananas, but I bet it would be very good lie that!
Liz Nelson
This was delicious! The whole family loved it!