Black Bottom Banana Cream Pie

Total Time: 4 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 6 tablespoons butter or 6 tablespoons margarine, divided
• 25 vanilla wafers, finely crushed
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 4 baker's semi-sweet chocolate baking squares
• 2 bananas, sliced
• 1 (3 1/2 ounce) box vanilla instant pudding mix, 4 serving size
• 1 3/4 cups milk
• 1 cup cool whip, thawed

Recipe

• 1 melt 4 tablespoons of the butter; place in medium bowl.
• 2 add wafer crumbs and sugar; mix well.
• 3 remove 2 tablespoons of the crumb mixture; set aside for later use.
• 4 press remaining crumb mixture firmly onto bottom and up side of 9-inch pie plate; set aside.
• 5 microwave chocolate and 2 tablespoons butter on high 1 minute or until butter is melted; stir until chocolate is completely melted.
• 6 drizzle evenly onto bottom or crust; top with bananas. set aside.
• 7 prepare dry pudding mix as directed on package for pie; pour evenly over bananas.
• 8 refrigerate at least 4 hours up to 24 hours.
• 9 top with cool whip just before serving; sprinkle with 2 tablespoons crumb mixture.