?Recipes
Ingredients:
1 stick butter
2 med/large size bananas slice
1 package Joseph's brand sugar-free pecan shortbread cookies
1 large box vanilla sugar free/fat free instant pudding (use 2 you want extra pudding)
3 Cups skim milk (6 Cups if you want extra pudding, and you do!)
1 8 oz tubs/bricks of light cream cheese (use 2 with pudding for extra pudding)
1 tub fat-free cool whip (used separately)
Instructions:
Take cream cheese out of fridge to get softened to room temperature
Make pudding as per instructions with fat free milk, put in fridge
Spray pie plate with spray oil (can use any size pie tin/plate you want,)
Prepare Crust by:
Melt butter in microwave
Put cookies in food processor until they are fine crumbs
Pour melted butter over cookie crumbs and use hands to mix together
Press evenly in bottom of pie plate
Put in fridge to chill
When pudding has set and cream cheese is at room temperature, use beat the cream cheese into the pudding with an electric mixer. It is very important that cream cheese isniÅLt cold, or the mixture will be lumpy. You want a very creamy, silky consistency.
Set pudding/cream cheese mixture in fridge to chill for a couple more hours (or overnight if time allows)
Pie Assembly:
Take crust out of fridge
Fill with desired amount of pudding/cream cheese mixture
Top with a layer of sliced bananas and distribute evenly
Top that with Fat Free Cool Whip
Stick a slice or two of banana on top to identify it as banana cream
Short-cuts/Suggestions:
Make sure you leave yourself enough time for cream cheese to come to room temperature
Make sure you leave yourself time for pudding/cream cheese mixture to fully set
I prepare the crust and pudding/cream cheese mixture the day before and chill overnight, and then assemble the pie just before serving (this will prevent the crust from getting soggy and the bananas from getting brown)
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