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Bon Appétit

Banana Cream Pie

By Chris Morocco

4.2

(6)

Top view of banana cream pie topped with chopped peanuts in a pie pan.
Photo by Ted Cavanaugh, Chelsea Cavanaugh, Prop Styling by Kalen Kaminski, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich

A showstopping peanut-studded banana cream pie with sky-high whipped cream. Roasted peanuts pull double duty in the graham cracker crust and sprinkled over the topping, keeping the bananas from making this pie excessively sweet.  

  

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