A bit of a warning before we begin. The Lonely Island Pie is intended to be almost tangy in its bitterness. If you would like to alter the recipe to sweeten it, I would suggest adding either sugar or condensed milk to your melted chocolate before adding that to the bananas. You can also try lightening the chocolate with 2% milk. If you would like to keep the recipe as-is, I would suggest enjoying a slice along with a glass of Merlot, or any similar red wine which goes well alongside bitter, dark chocolate.
Now that we have that out of the way...
Recipe for Lonely Island Pie
--Ingredients
- 1 unbaked pie crust
- 4 ripe bananas
- 4 units of unsweetened baking chocolate (1 oz each)
- 2 separate tablespoons of sugar
- 1 dollop of dark corn syrup
- about 30 Nilla Wafers or so
- 2 tablespoons of almond extract
--Directions
- Peel all four bananas and mash them together well in a large mixing bowl. Melt the chocolate in a double-boiler saucepan and mix in the corn syrup. Immediately upon removing the chocolate from heat, pour it into the bananas and mix thoroughly. Add almond extract to mixture and stir.
- In another mixing bowl, crush the Nilla Wafers to large crumbs and then mix in the first tablespoon of sugar.
- Line the inside of the pie crust with the second tablespoon of sugar and then pour the chocolate-banana mixture into the crust, using a spatula to make the surface even. Top the pie with the crushed cookies. Bake the pie in the oven at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Cool on rack.
Remember what I said about the wine. Enjoy.
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