Peanut Butter Chocolate Banana Cream Pie

Yes another dessert!! This one comes from Kraft Foods. I am going to add it as it as written, but I am going to give you some tips on how I do it. This recipe is really easy and yummy. This has become one that my dad really likes.

35 NILLA Wafers, finely crushed (about 1 cup)

1/4 cup Butter, melted

2 squares BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate, divided

1/2 cup Peanut butter

2 Bananas, cut lengthwise in half, then crosswise into quarters

2 pkg. (3.4 oz. each) JELL-O Vanilla Flavor Instant Pudding

2 cups cold milk

2 cups thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, divided

2 Tbsp. PLANTERS Salted Peanuts, coarsely chopped

make it

HEAT oven to 350ºF.

MIX wafer crumbs and butter until well blended; press onto bottom and up side of 9-inch pie plate. Bake 5 to 8 min. or until golden brown. Cool completely. Meanwhile, make chocolate curls from 1/2 chocolate square. Refrigerate.

MICROWAVE remaining 1-1/2 chocolate squares and peanut butter in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 min.; stir until chocolate is completely melted and mixture is well blended. Place bananas in crust; drizzle with melted chocolate.

BEAT pudding mixes and milk in large bowl with whisk 2 min. Stir in 1 cup COOL WHIP. Spread over bananas; top with remaining COOL WHIP.

REFRIGERATE 3 hours. Top with chocolate curls and nuts just before serving.

**Now for my tips!!

I think this pie is too thick this way so I adjusted it to my liking. So the tips I am giving will help you make and split it. Instead of making the crust myself I purchase two graham cracker crusts.

Even if you don't want to split it into two pies, you could still buy the ready made crust. They do have a extra serving sized crust in the stores that would help thin it down a bit.

I also get a couple extra bananas. Move your whipped topping to the fridge that night before you plan to make this. When you are ready to start make your pudding first so that it can be chilling and setting up while you work on the other prep. Next, do the chocolate, peanut butter melting. While it is in the microwave work on the banana slicing and arrangement. Split the chocolate, peanut butter mix between the two crusts. If you want more of this flavor double the amount and then split between the crusts.

Next after you mix the whipped topping with the pudding split it between the two crusts. Split the remaining topping between both pies. As for the chocolate curls and crushed nuts, I run them through my grater. If you don't have a grater use a vegetable peeler on the chocolate. You can put the nuts in a zip top bag and give a few hits with a rolling pin.

**I don't use salted nuts. I buy a jar of dry roasted peanuts. Then I can use the remaining nuts to make Rocky Road Squares.

**As you can see by my final picture, the pie crust is full. With splitting the mixture I get two full pies.