Delicious icing on pumpkin spice scones.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 45 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 5 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 pie |
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- ½ cup water
- 10 bananas, peeled and sliced lengthwise
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 cups toasted wheat germ
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup light margarine
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Sprinkle 3 tablespoons of brown sugar over the bottom of a small saucepan or skillet. Cook over medium heat until melted. Stir in water until sugar is completely dissolved. Heat to between 234 and 240 degrees F (112 to 116 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms a soft ball that flattens when removed from the water and placed on a flat surface. Pour the syrup into a round baking dish or deep dish pie plate and spread to coat the bottom.
- Make a layer of bananas on top of the melted sugar. In a medium bowl, stir together the whole wheat flour, wheat germ, oats and 1 cup of brown sugar. Mix in the margarine using your hands, pinching it into small pieces to make a crumbly dough. Sprinkle half of this over the bananas in the dish and pat down. Top with the remaining bananas and sprinkle with about half of the cinnamon. Spread the rest of the dough over the bananas and pat the pie smooth. Sprinkle remaining cinnamon over the top.
- Bake for 45 minutes in the preheated oven, until the pie topping is toasted and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Reviews
Very good. It seems like the instructions didn’t let ppl know to flip it over lol . Here are my results
looked nothing like the picture…very dry! use more margine and half the oats, flour and wheat germ. 🙁 Feel like I just wasted 10 bananas
3.5 stars First, either double the butter/margarine or halve the amount of flour, wheat germ and oats. There is WAY too much topping. Second, the pie looks NOTHING like the picture. The syrup is on bottom. Clearly the picture shown has syrup or some bananas on top. Third, a normal or even deep pie dish is too small unless you halve the dry ingredients. If you use more butter/margarine and keep the dry ingredients the same, be sure to use a 9×13 type baking dish. Fourth, we used 10 bananas and followed the recipe exactly. It’s too dry. We used a large 2 qt baking dish which still wasn’t big enough. Solution? Add milk and treat is like a sweet banana porridge/oatmeal. It’s got potential, but needs tweaking. Also recommend doubling the syrup amount.
We liked this pie. I changed the proportions a little to suit our tastes and used butter instead of margarine. Next time I would use more syrup.
Although the ingredients are healthy, which we try to incorporate into our menu, this wasn’t one of our favourites. The “crust” didn’t stick together enough and the flavours didn’t bake together, so it tasted like eating a banana with crumbly topping. My husband enjoyed it though and did say that it was better cold the next day.
Made it twice already and it was gobbled down both times! It makes a lot and is very filling and healthy! I wouldn’t change a thing with this recipe, it really comes out perfectly!
Delicious! I made this for my Brazilian husband. There was something very familar about this dish. An excellent comfort food. I used Olivio spread for the light margarine. I used a 10″ cake pan and would recommend doubling the syrup.
I thought this recipe was good but not great. I’d make it again but I’d use double the margarine in the topping. It was rather dry. Maybe it was supposed to be that way, I don’t know. But I was thinking it was going to be more like an apple crisp type topping so I was a little disappointed. I needed more bananas than called for, but the ones I used were a little on the small side. The taste of everything else was great and I would’ve rated it higher if it weren’t for the topping being so dry. Thanks for a good recipe. I really would like to try it again, just with that modification.
This came out very good. I added coconut for some extra flavor. The only other change I made was to sprinkle the brown sugar on the bottom instead of making a syrup and it still tasted fine.
Nutritious and delicious! I did have trouble with the melted sugar layer on the bottom, it wouldn’t turn into syrup for me so in the end I just sprinkled brown sugar in the bottom of the baking dish which seemed to work just fine. I also wondered exactly what “light margarine” is, I used regular stick margarine and it was great. Works perfectly well with whole grain flours besides wheat (I used barley). Everyone loved it, and were sorry they were too full to eat more! (10 inch spring form pan fits it all well.)
This Banana Pie has a very good taste overall, everyone in my family enjoyed it. Very clean and fresh tasting. It would be great with Vanilla Ice Cream. The baking dish needs to be an 9″ x 13″ because I could barely fit it into a 2 Qt baking dish. The recipe makes a bunch so someone with smaller needs might be better off halfing the recipe. Try it you will like it. Easy to make also.
Kinda like banana crisp…. Most excellent