Quick Chocolate Banana Cream Pie

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Yield: 8 slices

1 frozen pie shell, pricked several times with tines of a fork
1 package instant chocolate pudding, prepared to package directions
2 ripe bananas, sliced thin on an angle
1 can spray whipped cream
1 dark chocolate candy bar

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Bake pie shell 10 to 12 minutes, until
golden. Remove from oven and let cool.

Line the baked and cooled pie shell with a layer of chocolate pudding,
half of the prepared amount. Add a layer of bananas. Top with
remaining prepared instant chocolate pudding and remaining bananas.
Cover the top with a giant swirl of whip cream from the spray can,
starting at the center and working out. Shave a chocolate bar with a
vegetable peeler and top pie with shavings. Serve immediately.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar Sundaes

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 minute
Yield: 4 servings

These sundaes taste like Mr. Goodbar candy bars. I used to look for
mini Goodbars first in my Trick-o-Treat bag.

2 pints vanilla ice cream
1 jar chocolate fudge sauce
1 cup red skinned salted peanuts, available on snack aisle of market
1/4 cup honey
Whipped cream, canister
8 mini chocolate covered crunchy peanut bar (recommended: Mr.
Goodbar), optional garnish

Get 4 sundae cups or goblets out and place a huge scoop of ice cream
in each. Heat the fudge sauce 30 seconds in microwave, with the lid
off the jar. Sprinkle a handful of nuts into each dish, top with a
layer of fudge, another scoop of ice cream, a spoonful more of fudge.
Heat the honey in microwave 10 to 15 seconds. Top sundaes with whipped
cream, a drizzle of warm honey, then garnish with a few red peanuts
and a couple of mini candy bars at the edge of the cup or goblet.
edge. Serve with long spoons if you got ??em on plates, to catch any
overflow.

Amaretti Ice Cream Balls

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Yield: 4 servings

24 amaretti cookies
1/4 cup amaretto liqueur
2 pints vanilla ice cream
Chocolate sauce
Whipped cream

Crush cookies by hand or in plastic bag. Place onto a sheet pan.
Dampen the cookie crumbs with the liqueur. Scoop ice cream balls onto
the sheet pan and roll around until covered. Place the balls into a
serving dish and top with chocolate sauce and whipped cream.