Laura’s Special Banana Blueberry Pie

My best friend of almost 16 years, Laura, hates cake. She really isn’t a big dessert person at all, actually. (How am I friends with this person?) But she sent me this pie recipe a few years ago and asked me to make it for her birthday, and now I make it for her every year. Her parents got this recipe from a random man at a farmer’s market decades ago and now, I am passing it along to you because it deserves to be shared. Laura won’t let anyone else eat this pie, she just uses a spoon right out of the pan. I guess this is why we are friends?

what you need:

• 1 pack of Dream Whip
• 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
• 6 oz cream cheese, at room temp
• 1 can blueberry pie filling
• ½ cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 5 – 6 bananas
• 1 cooked 9 in pie shell, cooled (link to the BEST pie crust EVER here) (or you can buy a frozen one) (this is NOT a graham cracker crust)
• special equipment needed: stand mixer or electric hand mixer

what you need to do:

1. In a large bowl, add the contents of the dream whip pack, milk, and vanilla, and whip until peaks form. I use a hand mixer for this. It should look like cool whip.
2. Put this bowl in the freezer for 5 minutes.
3. In separate bowl, beat together the cream cheese and powdered sugar until combined and well blended.
4. Take dream whip out of the freezer, add it to the cream cheese mixture, and mix well until combined.
5. Peel bananas and slice into thin slices.
6. Grab your pie crust and place one layer of bananas on the bottom.
7. Spread half of the cream cheese/dream whip mixture over the bananas.
8. Place another layer of bananas on top of the cream mixture.
9. Spread the rest of the cream mixture over the layer of bananas. 
10. Open your blueberry pie filling, and pour over the top in an even layer and spread out to the pie crust, be very careful not to let it drip over the sides. You do not have to use all of this, just enough to cover the top.
11. Place pie in the fridge for at least 6 hours to let it firm up for slicing!