Banana Pudding Pie

Who doesn't love banana pudding?  So about three Sunday's ago, Cody's nanny cooked lunch for the family.  This is a once a month ritual to get everyone together.  Great food and good, quality family time!

However, this past time, we had plans to attend the Brookhaven Arts Festival to see someone play in a band that we graduated high school with.  They had some pretty cool art pieces and some great DIY projects.  Cody could tell that my mind was spinning with ideas because even as we were walking he had made the comment that I bet you are loving this and I can see all the ideas running through your brain of what you can make.

We had decided after we left the festival, we would stop by his nanny and papa's house to pick up some food for dinner.  There was a little bit of banana pudding left and Cody shared one bite.  Can you believe that?  Wait, don't answer because everyone's answer is going to be yes!  After that one bite, I knew I had to make this recipe that I have been meaning to make for months.

Of course, I found the recipe here via Pinterest.  I've made banana pudding before, but never banana pudding pie.

I did tweek the recipe a little.  The recipe tells you how to make the pudding and the topping from scratch, but I knew I was going to take the easy way out.

One thing I would suggest for the crust is to use more wafers than it calls for.  I used my food processor to crush up the wafers - mess free!

For the pudding, I used 2 boxes of vanilla pudding - fast and easy.

For the banana layers, I used 2 bananas for each layer for a total of 4 small bananas.

After cutting up the bananas and making the pudding, I just starting layering everything including more wafers.  I would also suggest buying 2 boxes of wafers.
 

This was absolutely delicious and super easy to make!  I really don't like making desserts, but recipes like these are hard to pass up.  This will be one of my go to recipes for any future potlucks!

Enjoy!