I have posted this pie in the past, twice in fact.  With no success either time I never attached the recipe.  I don’t know why because I posted pictures of mushy pie that wouldn’t set.  Not that it was the fault of the original baker.  It was this girl right here who seemed to temporarily become incapable of reading a recipe.  I mean there’s a BIG difference between 4 teaspoons of rum and 4 TABLESPOONS!  Oops.

So after more than a year I decided once again that I would make this pie and make it my bitch.  I promise this pie is so easy, so yummy (even with the extra rum), it was just baker error.  Oh, and the secret ingredient? Curry powder in the crust!  Sounds a bit weird, but I swear it makes the pie.  We’ve all had banana cream pie, but this one is special.

Banana Rum Cream Pie

{via Epicurious}

Ingredients

Preperation

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Mix together crumbs, butter, curry powder, cinnamon, and 2 tablespoons brown sugar in a bowl with a fork until combined well. Reserve no more than 1 tablespoon crumb mixture for garnish and press remaining crumb mixture evenly onto bottom and up side of pie plate. This can be a little tricky because the crust mixture is fairly dry, but it doesn’t need to be perfect.  Then bake crust 10 minutes.  Allow to cool completely in your 9” pie plate on a rack, about 20 minutes.

Beat together cream cheese, zest, and remaining 6 tablespoons brown sugar in a deep bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until light and fluffy, about 1 minute.  If your bowl is too shallow, prepare for cream cheese to cover you, your counter tops and the coffee maker.  If it sounds like I know from experience, that’s because I do.

Beat cream with rum in another bowl with cleaned beaters at medium speed until it holds soft peaks. Gently stir one third of whipped cream into cream cheese mixture to lighten, then fold in remaining whipped cream gently but thoroughly.

Spread all of cream filling over bananas, then sprinkle reserved crumb mixture over top. Chill pie, loosely covered, 20 minutes.  Thinly slice bananas and arrange evenly over bottom of crust. One suggestion I’d like to make and I’ll probably try in the future, is laying your spread and bananas.  Just a thought, we’ll see if it works out.