Pie Club Week 14: Blueberry Banana

Week 14 was blueberry banana pie, and it was a cream pie. I am not a huge fan of bananas, but I do like banana cream pie, so this option interested me. I thought that the tartness of blueberries would be a nice compliment to the cream and bananas, and it was. This pie turned out to be delicious!

For this pie, I made a blueberry sauce/topping, and then also mixed in some raw, fresh blueberries so that there would be another texture with all the creaminess of the filling and bananas. I tossed the banana slices in some fresh lemon juice, so that they would keep their color. The crust is a graham cracker crust, which I lined with some of the banana slices. The filling is a lightened pastry cream that I poured over the banana slices into the pie shell. Once chilled, I topped the filling with the blueberry sauce, and layered the rest of my banana slices around the edge. I also added a few slices and fresh blueberries to the center of the pie, and then garnished with mint leaves. I the colors and textures of this pie look really nice.

The flavor was excellent, cool, creamy and satisfying. I liked this spin on banana cream a lot, and will make it again!