Chocolate Cherry Banana Split Pie

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3/4 cup butter or 3/4 cup margarine, softened and divided
• 2 cups crushed vanilla wafers (about 60 wafers)
• 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons baking cocoa
• 1 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1 large firm banana, sliced thin
• 1/3 cup halved maraschino cherry
• 1 can crushed pineapple, drained
• whipped topping
• chocolate curls (my family calls this "chocolate potatoes" because you use a potato peeler to shred a bar of chocolat)
• additional maraschino cherry

Recipe

• 1 melt 1/2 cup butter and toss with the wafer crumbs, press into a 9 inch pie plate.
• 2 in a mixing bowl, cream the remaining butter; beat in confectioners sugar until combined.
• 3 spread over crust.
• 4 in another bowl, beat cream, sugar and cocoa until stiff peaks form.
• 5 fold in walnuts, banana, pineapple and maraschino cherries and spoon this mixture into crust.
• 6 cover, refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.
• 7 garnish with whipped topping, chocolate curls and cherries.