Banana Cream Disaster

Joshua made this banana cream pie [1], but it didn't go so well for us. We followed the recipe exactly.

This is more what it looked like. Banana cream disaster. ;) And we tried to take out a piece very carefully for a picture. :)

Neither of us thought that the cinnamon in the pudding part was the right flavor for a banana cream pie. The pudding was nice and thick, but after being mixed with whipping cream, it just wouldn't hold its shape, even after being refrigerated overnight. The bananas turned black -- though I don't suppose there's a way around that, when you're using real bananas instead of artificial banana-flavored pudding.

I'm not sure what all we plan to do differently next time. Banana cream pie isn't really my favorite pie, anyway -- which explains why Joshua did 95% of the work of making this one... :)