Red and Yellow Heaven

Finally, the time has come. Time to make my favorite pie. In my eyes, this pie is and always will be the best pie the world has ever had the privilege to hold. I am of course talking of the banana cream pie. This is actually a variation of the banana cream pie, I am adding strawberries as well. Luckily, my favorite book when it comes to baking pies, A Year of Pies, A Seasonal Tour of Home Baked Pies, had a recipe that provided the necessary instructions. I began by gathering my materials.

"1 Pie crust

5 Egg Yolks

1  cup of evaporated milk

1 1/2 cups of milk

1/2 cup + 2 tbsp of Sugar

1/4 cup of corn starch

1/8 tsp of salt

1 vanilla bean

2 bananas

8 fresh strawberries" (English 87)

The beginning of baking this may seem extremely similar to the vanilla cream pie that I made, but that is because it is essentially the same recipe, you just add bananas and strawberries. That being said, I extracted the yolks from the eggs, 

Me extracting the yolks from the eggs

and stirred the sugar, corn starch, and salt together. Then I mixed them together with the milk and the evaporated milk, and added the vanilla bean. I cooked that until it was thick, and while this was happening, I baked the pie crust. Afterwards, I sliced up the bananas and the strawberries, and layered it in the pie crust in a checker pattern (English 87) along with the cream mixture. 

Me layering the strawberries and bananas.

I did that until the pie was full of bananas, strawberries, and cream.

Finished pie

I believe that this is the end of my journey. It has been a fun one and I have learned a lot about baking along the way. I couldn't have done it without the help of  A Year of Pies, A Seasonal Tour of Home Baked Pies by Ashley English. This pie was by far my favorite, not just to eat, but to make as well. Layering the strawberries and bananas was the best part. what is your favorite part of making a pie, or baking in general?

English, Ashley. A Year of Pies. New York: Lark Crafts, 2012. Print.