| CATEGORY |
CUISINE |
TAG |
YIELD |
| Dairy |
Canadian |
Desserts, Christmas |
8 |
Servings |
INGREDIENTS
| 1 1/2 |
c |
Chocolate cookie crumbs |
| 1/4 |
c |
Granulated sugar |
| 1/4 |
c |
Butter, melted |
| 1 |
c |
Whipping cream |
| 1/3 |
c |
Granulated sugar |
| 2 |
tb |
Cocoa powder, sifted |
| 1 |
c |
Mashed ripe bananas |
| 1/3 |
c |
Toasted chopped almonds |
| 1/3 |
c |
Chopped maraschino cherries or dried cranberries |
| 24 |
|
Banana slices |
| 1/2 |
c |
Bottled chocolate sauce |
| 8 |
|
Maraschino cherries or dried cranberries |
INSTRUCTIONS
FILLING
GARNISH
In small bowl, blend together chocolate crumbs, sugar and butter.
Press evenly onto bottom and side of well-greased 9 inch pie plate.
Bake in center of 375°F oven for about 8 minutes or until firm. Let
cool on rack.
FILLING: In large bowl, whip cream with sugar and cocoa powder. Fold
in mashed bananas, almonds and cherries. Spoon filling into cooled
pie shell, spreading evenly. Cover and freeze pie for about 4 hours
or until firm. (Make ahead: Freeze up to 2 days.)
GARNISH: Let pie stand in refrigerator for about 20 minutes or until
softened slightly; cut into wedges.
Garnish each serving with 3 banana slices, 1 tbsp. chocolate sauce
and 1 cherry. Makes 8 servings. Typed in MMFormat by
cjhartlin@email.msn.com Source: Canadian Living Magazine Dec. 99
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by "Cindy Hartlin"
<cjhartlin@email.msn.com> on Nov 25, 1999
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