The best dessert I've ever made!

Darren and I had his sister and our nephew over for dinner last night, and while we were talking about what we would serve them I decided I'd like to make a really yummy pie (partly to counter the fact that we decided to just serve take-out pizza for dinner).

Darren loves cream pies, but Jackson prefers cookies so I decided to make both. We couldn't decide between chocolate, banana, or coconut cream, so I came up with a combination that turned out to be truly delicious.

Friday night I made double chocolate cookies from a recipe I found online, omitting the nuts since Jackson doesn't like nuts. Saturday morning I used several of the cookies crushed up (about 4 cups total) mixed with 1/2 cup of melted butter to form the crust for the pie. I use a really large pie dish but the crust itself is thicker than usual with that many cookie crumbs. Once you get them all smashed around the dish you bake it for 10 minutes, following the regular instructions for a graham cracker crust.

I followed the recipe for coconut cream pie filling out of my trusty old Betty Crocker cook book, but before I poured it into the pie shell I sliced two big bananas into a layer in the bottom as if it were a banana cream pie.

It spent about 5 hours chilling in the fridge and before I served it I whipped up some heavy cream with maybe two teaspoons of sugar thrown in and topped the whole thing off. I was expecting the whole pie to be overly rich and possibly sickeningly sweet, but it wasn't at all! It was incredibly light and totally satisfying.

Let me know if you want more recipe details!