Banana Cream Pie and Cinnamon-honey Crust

Banana cream pie from scratch... mmm.

A good, rich one is made from whole dairy and enough egg yolks. Most are made with a traditional pie crust, or even graham cracker crust. With no graham crackers in the pantry, I decided to make my own cinnamon/honey graham dough. One option is to make a giant cookie, bake, crumble, then combine with melted butter, and push into a pie plate. Instead, I decided to roll out and pre-bake right into the pie plate. Whichever method you use, it pairs well with the banana cream!

Cinnamon Honey graham pie dough

(This is more like a cookie than a flaky pie crust)
250 thing whole wheat or white flour
1 tsp salt
4 Tbsp lt brown sugar
1 Tbsp honey
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
125 g cold butter pats
Icy water with gin and lemon
Form into disc, put into fridge for 30 minutes

Bake pie dough
Preheat to 400
Roll out, place into pie pan
Brush edges with egg wash
Dock bottom with fork, add pie weights
Also a silicone edge crust protector is nice to use, to minimize overbrowing of crust, some use foil.
Bake for 20 minutes, remove immediately

(I baked for 25 minutes, which was 5 minutes too many)

While that cools...

Filling
100 g coconut sugar

40 g coconut flour

1/4 tsp salt

Envelope of knox gelatin

1/2 cup cream

Egg yolks 5/6, or 100 g

2 cups whole milk

2 tsp vanilla extract

Into a medium saucepan:

Add all dry filling ingredients, combining thoroughly.

Add wet ingredients(except for vanilla).

Whisk thoroughly.

Put over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring constantly

again.

Slice bananas and place into bottom and up sides of prebaked crust

Pour in filling

Chill in fridge for minimum of 3 hours

1 cup of cream

Whip in mixer. As it starts to thicken, add 1/4 tsp of cream of tartar

When soft peaks form, add in:

2 Tbsp white sugar, powdered

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Whip until stiff peaks

Plop onto pie, spreading over entire surface, creating hills and valleys.

Optional: Toasted coconut, jimmies, or both!

If you'd like toasted coconut, that should bake at 275 for 5-8 minutes.

Fill a bowl with a tsp each of lemon juice and water, slice bananas into bowl to coat.

(This prevents the bananas from browning.)

Sprinkle toppings on entire pie, add a few bananas to each piece after slicing.

Your diners will be so happy... and full!