Bananas and chocolate - yummy!

So, this week is all about our favorite dessert recipes which is fairly easy for me. Our family loves desserts and I have always loved trying new recipes for our 'outings'. First and foremost, I must admit that I stole this picture out of the cookbook only because this has been a really busy week and I totally didn't have time to make this!! I promise to do better :)

But...this is one of my favorite dessert recipes and it's really easy -

Black Bottom Banana Cream Pie
1/2 package (15 oz) refrigerated pie crusts (1 crust)
1 container (12 oz) frozen whipped topping, thawed, divided
1 package (6 oz) semi-sweet chocolate morsels
1 1/2 cups cold milk
1 package (5.1 oz) vanilla instand pudding and pie filling
1/2 teaspoon rum extract (optional)
2 medium bananas, sliced, divided
strawberries for garnish
Preheat oven to 425 degrees
Let pie crust stand at room tempature 15 minutes
Gently unfold onto lightly floured surface
roll to 11 1/2 inch circle
place crust in pie plate
press dough into bottom and up sides, prick bottom and sides
bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown

Place 1 1/2 cups of cool whip and chocolate morsels in microwave dish, uncovered for 30-45 seconds; stir
Remove 2 tablespoons of chocolate mixture to a small, ziplock baggie
spread remaining chocolate mixture over bottom of pie crust
place crust in freezer
pour milk into bowl and add pudding mix (add rum if you like)
whisk 1 minute or until mixture begins to thicken
fold in 1 1/2 cups of cool whip

slice bananas, arrange slices over chocolate mixture in crust
spread pudding mixture over bananas
refrigerate 30 minutes

to garnish pie, cut small tip off corner of ziplock baggie of chocolate mixture
squeeze chocolate mixture over pie
spoon remaining cool whip in dollops around edge of pie
top with bananas and strawberries
cut into 'pie' slices

Delicious and really great as a summer dessert recipe!