This banana cream pie is the best! With a buttery sweet graham cracker crust, banana pudding filling and topped with whipped cream!
My favorite type of pie is always a cream pie, and banana cream pie is my favorite pie of all!
It always has to have a graham cracker crust though. For this pie, I usually just make it with pudding mixes to make it quicker and easier, and that’s how I grew up with it. So its what I stuck with this time too – because I knew it would be the best. I did however make a homemade graham cracker crust because its better that way – but if you want to buy a store bought crust you’re welcome to do that too.
Some typical banana cream pies only have vanilla pudding, but I wanted the banana flavor to be strong so I used one banana cream pudding mix and one vanilla pudding mix.
What is your favorite kind of pie? Or are you more or a cake and brownies kind of person?
Banana Cream Pie
Ingredients
For the Graham Cracker Crust:
- 12 graham cracker sheets
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup butter (melted)
For the Pie Filling:
- 1 3.5 oz vanilla pudding mix
- 1 3.5 oz banana cream pudding mix
- 2 1/2 cups milk
- 2 bananas
- 8 oz cool whip
Instructions
- Crush your graham crackers into a fine crumb. (It should make about 1 1/2 cups).
- Mix together your sugar with your graham cracker crumb in a medium sized bowl.
- Pour your melted butter over the top of your crumb and mix it all together.
- Pour your crust mixture into the bottom of a 9 inch pie crust pan and press down on the bottom and the edges.
- Pour your pudding mixes into a large bowl and pour your milk over it and stir together. Add 1/2 cup of cool whip to the pudding mixture and mix well.
- Cut your bananas into slices and lay them over your graham cracker crust.
- Pour pudding mixture over bananas and smooth top. Place in fridge to set for about 3 hours.
- Top with remaining cool whip and additional bananas before serving.
Enjoy this delicious and easy banana cream pie!
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Linda Lukens says
I assumed when reqding the recipe that No Cook pudding would be used. After buying the pudding and looking at the recipe again, it said the boxes of pudding should be 3.5 each. No cook pudding box is 5.1. So I ended up trying to calculate how much I should use to amount to 7 ounces. Should I have used the cook and serve pudding?
Aimee says
It should be the instant pudding mix, not the cook and serve kind. All our local stores (walmart, Kroger, etc.) well the instant pudding in both 3.4 and 5.1oz box sizes. Sorry you were unable to find that.
Betsy Scotto says
Does the banana cream pie use INSTANT pudding? I assume so, but it is not stated.
Aimee Berrett says
So sorry I didnt get back to you sooner, yes its instant
Janet says
Happy Thanksgiving! This is what I am taking to our celebration today. Thanks for the recipe 🙂
Janet says
This was a HUGE hit at the celebration! I used a gluten free chocolate pie shell and everyone requested this again.
Natalie says
I love pretty much anything banana flavored but the hubby doesn’t. This sounds heavenly, and I will definitely have to try it and bring it to work sometime, but I think I’m going to head over and check out your chocolate cream pie recipe, I’m sure hubby will like that one!
Yvonne [Tried and Tasty] says
What I wouldn’t give to have a slice of that right now! I’m not a pie fan generally, unless it doesn’t have pastry crust – then I like it! I love graham cracker crust on anything! This looks delicious!