Elegant White Chocolate Banana Cream Pie

Name: Elegant White Chocolate Banana Cream Pie
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 fluid ounce fluid ounce banana liqueur; 8 ripe bananas; 2 Tbsps butter, diced; 1 fluid ounce fluid ounce white chocolate liqueur; 59 milliliters sifted cornstarch; 6 egg yolks, beaten; 1 lemon, juiced; 473 milliliters milk; 1 9-inch (9 inch) pie crust, baked; 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder, for garnish; 1 vanilla bean, halved; 1 pint whipping cream; 340 grams white chocolate; 5 Tbsps white sugar

Elegant White Chocolate Banana Cream Pie might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 10. One serving contains 670 calories, 9g of protein, and 42g of fat. This recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have vanilla bean, bananas, juice of lemon, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

To Make White Chocolate Pastry Cream: In a medium bowl, whisk together egg yolks and sugar until pale yellow.

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White Chocolate

Pastry Cream

Egg Yolk

Sugar

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Whisk

Bowl

Whisk in cornstarch. In a medium saucepan, heat milk and vanilla bean to just below the boiling point. Slowly whisk a small amount of hot milk into egg yolk mixture, then stir egg yolk mixture back into pan. Bring to a boil over low heat, stirring constantly.

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Vanilla Bean

Corn Starch

Egg Yolk

Milk

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Sauce Pan

Whisk

Frying Pan

Stir in butter, then strain mixture through a sieve.

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Butter

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Sieve

Place plastic wrap over the surface of mixture to keep a skin from forming. Allow to cool slightly, then stir in melted white chocolate. Chill pastry cream.

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White Chocolate

Pastry Cream

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Slice bananas and toss with the lemon juice to keep from discoloring. Set aside.

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Lemon Juice

Banana

In a large bowl, whip chilled whipping cream until stiff peaks form. Fold into pastry cream, then fold in bananas and liqueurs. Fill tart shell with banana cream filling.

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Cream

Pastry Cream

Banana

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Bowl

Top generously with white chocolate curls, then dust with cocoa.

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Chocolate Curls

Cocoa Powder

Serve soon after assembling so crust doesn't get soggy.

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Crust

To make white chocolate curls, carefully draw a vegetable peeler across the broad, flat surface of a room-temperature (about 80 degrees) chunk of white chocolate to make large, thin curls. Refrigerate until ready to use.

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Chocolate Curls

White Chocolate

Vegetable