Banana Split Pie

Ingredients:

• 1½ cups graham cracker crumbs
• 1 heaping Tbs (15-20 ml) granulated sugar
• 1 large can crushed pineapple
• 3 or 4 bananas
• 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
• 1½ cups powdered sugar
• ½ stick butter (57g)
• 1 8-ounce tub of Cool Whip
• Cherry halves for garnish
• Pecans for garnish (optional)

Prep Steps:

1: Soften the cream cheese.
2: Drain pineapple, squeezing out as much liquid as you can, and reserving ⅓ cup of the juice.

Steps:

1: Melt the butter in a 9 × 13 pan in the oven (around 300°F).   
2: Mix the graham cracker crumbs and sugar into the butter, and press into a crust in the pan.   
3: Slice the bananas into a layer over the crust.   
4: Spread drained crushed pineapple over the bananas.   
5: Mix cream cheese, powdered sugar, and reserved pineapple juice. Spread that over the pineapple.   
6: Top with a layer of Cool Whip.   
7: Garnish with cherry halves (and pecans).   

Comments:

This is the right recipe, copied from the photocopy from the yellow Calling All Cooks book, submitted by Marguerite Hays of the Birmingham West Council.