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kleinbl00  ·  904 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 27, 2021

Banana cream pies can be elevated by putting a quarter-inch-thick layer of chocolate ganache between graham cracker crust and banana pudding.

It's a seriously easy pie. Graham cracker crust (graham crackers'n'butter), chocolate ganache (dark chocolate chips, heavy cream), greenish banana slices laid down in a pseudo-grid, fill all with banana pudding, instant is fine. You can legit top it with reddi-whip. The recipe almost doesn't matter.

Nobody "loves" banana cream pie. Throw a fuckton of ganache in it and suddenly they do. There's a lesson there.





ButterflyEffect  ·  904 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...is the lesson that people like ganache and not pie? Is a pie still a pie once it's primarily ganache? Hm.

kleinbl00  ·  904 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A quarter inch of chocolate does not make it a chocolate pie. You've got an inch and a half of banana and banana pudding, and maybe another two inches of whipped cream.