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meringue pie

Banana Meringue Pie

Ingredients
  

crust

  • 1 ⅓ c. crushed nilla wafers
  • 2 T. sugar
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 5 T. salted butter melted

Filling

  • ¾ c sugar
  • 6 T. flour
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • 2 cups very hot milk
  • 4 egg yolks save whites for meringue
  • 4 T. salted butter
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 4 bananas sliced 1/4"

Meringue

  • 4 whites that you reserved earlier
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • ¼ tsp. cream of tartar
  • ½ c. sugar

Instructions
 

crust

  • Mix all and press into 9 inch pie pan.
  • Bake at 350 8 mins and cool.

Filling

  • In a sauce pan, combine sugar, flour, salt.
  • Slowly add the hot milk and whisk. Bring to a boil and cook 1 min.
  • Place yolks in a heat-safe bowl and whisk while adding some of the hot milk mixture into the eggs. Return it all to the hot pot, whisking.
  • Cook on low 3 mins.
  • Remove heat and add butter and vanilla, stirring to melt.
  • Lay a piece of wax paper on the surface and cool 20 mins.
  • Lay half the bananas in bottom of pie dish.
  • Add half the cream.
  • Add rest of bananas and then cover with the rest of the cream.
  • Place wax paper on top and cool to room temp. Then chill 2 hours in fridge.

meringue

  • Beat whites, salt and tartar to soft peaks.
  • Slowly add sugar to stiff peaks.
  • Take wax paper off pie and dollop meringue on top creating swirls with your knife. Spread all the way to the pan on all sides.
  • Bake 15 mins.
  • Cool to room temp and chill 3 hours.