Banana Cream Pie (max & Erma's Copycat)

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups heavy cream
• 2 cups half-and-half
• 12 ounces vanilla instant pudding mix
• 3 bananas, sliced 1/4 thick
• 2 prepared vanilla wafer pie crusts
• 1 (15 ounce) can whipped cream (for topping)
• chocolate syrup (for topping)
• 1 banana, sliced (for garnish)

Recipe

• 1 yes, you are going to have to split a package of vanilla pudding mix. this means that you will need a kitchen scale.
• 2 place the cream and half & half in a bowl, add the instant pudding mix.
• 3 with an electric mixer, whip on low speed for 1 minute until combined scraping sides. just get it all mixed in, it will start to thicken a little.
• 4 whip on medium speed for just a minute or so longer until it thickens a bit more.
• 5 then power it up to high for a minute or so more. be careful not to overmix. my first attempt yielded a deflated filling because i overmixed. you want it to come out the consistency of mousse.
• 6 place a layer of sliced bananas in the pie shells.
• 7 spoon some filling over the bananas and smooth to the edges of the shells. don't lay it on too thick, we want to get 3 layers out of the filling.this stuff is thick and will try to pull up the bananas, so be patient.
• 8 add two more layers of banana slices and filling. the filling should be thick enough to be able to mound it up higher than the crust.
• 9 top with whipped cream, drizzle with chocolate sauce, and garnish with banana slices.