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Hi everyone, welcome back to Catherine's plates. Look at all the deliciousness I have going on right here. We are going to make a banana split cake. I've never made this recipe before. This came from a friend of mine
that I've known for over 18 years. We were able to have lunch together the other day, and she was telling me about how she always makes this dessert for her son's birthday. Now, he's an adult now, so she's made it for me

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many many years so I'm going to give it a go
because it sounds delicious okay this is a no-bake

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icebox dessert okay no stove and oven going
on here today if you're ready let's go ahead

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and have some fun let's build this one up
first thing we're going to do is make our

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gram cracker crust that will fit in the bottom
of our baking dish now I'm just going to

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use my food processor here You can certainly just put these
in a Ziploc bag and crush them up that way if you'd like

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So I'm going to put three packets
of these gram crackers in here

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Now this is a 14 ounce box. You move about
two and a half cups of crushed graham crackers

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All right. Let get these going and then
I'll put that last packet in there

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Now what we want is a fine crumb with this. So I'm going to empty this out into a bowl and
then we're going to finish up these right here and then we're going to go on from there

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Mmm, bran crackers smell good, huh

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So we're using three quarters cup of
melted butter, which is a stick and a half

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I'm going to get my fork here. We're
going to blend this until all the crissue

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are coated with the butter. So I'm just
kind of forming it here right, making sure

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that it's going to form a nice crust,
which it is right there. Okay, let's go

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ahead and bring our 9 by 13 baking dish
over. Okay, now what I like to do is

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just lightly spray the bottom of my
dish. And then I'm going to pour my

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mixture into here and then just kind of form it. I just going to use my
fork and just start pressing down for a nice even crust on the bottom

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You do not need to go up on the sides with this.
Just make it sure it's nice and formed, solid

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Okay, now the reason why I sprayed my baking
dish before I put the mixture in was we're going

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to put this in the refrigerator and it's going
to chill for about 30 minutes to solidify

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Now the butter in that gram cracker crust
will solidify and help it make a solid crust

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Now when you spray the bottom of your dish, this
does not solidify in the refrigerator, okay

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So it'll make it easy to be able
to cut out pieces of our cake here

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Alright, so that's what's going to happen. in the refrigerator
for 30 minutes to chill to help lock this crust in

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and then we're gonna come back and start
filling this up. So our Graham Cracker

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crust is almost ready to come out of
the refrigerator. Now in a medium bowl I

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have eight ounces of cream cheese that
I've softened and to that I added a

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quarter cup of softened butter. And what
I'm gonna do is take a hand mixer here

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I'm gonna blend this together for about
five minutes until it's nice and creamy

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Okay, after the two minutes

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Okay, after the two-minute mark, we're going to
start incorporating three cups of powdered sugar

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and I'm going to do it one cup at a time.
All right, just scrape down the sides

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so we can incorporate everything. Right,
lucky today I have two people and two beaters

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Okay, look at how creamy this is.
Okay, let's go ahead now and bring out

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Our graham cracker crust over. Now this had
chilled in the refrigerator for 30 minutes

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Or if you don't have that much time, you can
stick that in your freezer for about 10 minutes

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to solidify your crust. Oh, that
looks really good. Nice and firm

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What I'm going to do is take our mixture here
and we're just going to put dollops all the

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way around. Now make sure you do
dollops. It's easy to spread that way

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Now I shared the beaters. I wonder who's going to get the bowl. Somebody
was complaining that one beater had more stuff left on it than the other one

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I have my daughter, Rihanna, and my husband, Thomas. And
they're going to have to fight over the bowl, I guess

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Alright I going to use my favorite tool when I baking and this is an offset spatula and it really easy to spread things using this instead of a spatula
But I will link these down below my description box if you want to check them out And also you can find these in my blog at www and my store items

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So now what we're going to do is just
smooth this out evenly over the crust

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Okay, I got this evenly spread in here. Okay,
I'm going to bring four bananas over here

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bring my cake back over here let's see
I can see that there we go I'm going to

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slice the bananas and we're gonna put
those all over the topping right here now

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there was a trick to peeling bananas if
you start at the bottom and you peel it

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all the string comes with it and then you
have no strings left if you peel it from

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the top down you always have those little
strings nice little tip huh all right we're

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going to use my yellow knife here since
we're doing bananas. All right and we're just

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going to layer them. So I may be doing
three bananas, we'll see. So I think it

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depends on the size of your bananas and
how thick you cut your bananas as to how

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many you're going to need three or four.
Mine were pretty big so I did three

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bananas for this right here. Okay I have
a 20 ounce can of pineapple. Now this is

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crushed pineapple. What you want to do before
you add this is make sure you drain it well

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So I was going to take the lid off. I've just got my
little strainer here over a bowl. I'm going to add it

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And then what I'm going to do is just take a fork and just mash it.
Do we can get all that juice out of there. You don't want this wet

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And don't worry. That juice ain't going anywhere. I love. pineapple juice.
Now if you want to use pineapple chunks you can do that also and you

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can put that on there. Just make sure it's
all drained very well. Okay once you get

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this drained we're going to put it on
top of our bananas nice and evenly

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And hopefully I told you the size of it.
It is the 20 ounces. Yeah we're still

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building up. Okay that's looking really
good. Go. Okay now we're going to top our

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banana pineapple mixture with a whipped
topping now you can either use cool whip

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that comes out of your refrigerated section of your store you just want to thaw
that out and then it's 12 ounces or you can do whipped topping now I'm using

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some heavy whipping cream and I'm gonna
make my own kind of cool whip version

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here so I've got 12 ounces of a heavy
whipping cream I'm just gonna put into a

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medium bowl I've just got my whisk attached onto my electric hand
mixer here. I'm going to beat this up until we get nice stiff peaks

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Now about halfway through before I get to that I going to add one tablespoon of powdered sugar
just to kind of sweeten this up like a cool whip All right That what you want right there

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You don't want to overmix because you don't want to
curdle it, but this is totally perfect right here

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Now, I didn't add too much powdered sugar
because this dessert is sweet enough

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All right, let's go ahead and bring our dessert back over here
and we're going to top it with the cool whip whipped topping

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we're going to do the same thing with the cool
whip that we did with the cream cheese mixture

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we're going to dollop it on here because it'll
make it really easy to spread out now the

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cool whip is really easy to spread so I'm
just going to use my spatula here and just

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spread it over the pineapple all right we're
going to go ahead now and start garnishing our

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cake with delicious toppings that we like
on a banana split cherries so these are

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maraschino cherries out of a jar I just dried them
and and then if they have stems on them, take them off

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and then I just kind of halved them and quartered
some of them, depending on how big they were

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So I'm going to place these all over my
cake here. Okay, I chopped up some beacons

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I'm going to add that to the top of the cherries
here. Of course, we like chocolate syrup on ours

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or you can put hot fudge and pour that over it. The last
thing I'm going to put on, I'm going to put some sprinkles

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Okay, this looks like a party.
Okay, there's one final step

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We have to put this in the refrigerator to
chill and set up for four hours or overnight

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Now, if you know at my house, four
hours is going to be the tops for this

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Got that right. All right,
guys, I'll be back and show you

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What's on the inside? Okay, look at
my icebox no bake banana split cake

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Doesn't that look like a party?
Look at the different layers

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Oh, who wants this bite right
here? Mmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mmm

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You know, the Graham Cracker crust down
there tastes like an ice cream cone

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We've got the bananas, the cool whip, the
chocolate syrup, there's cream cheese in there

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sprinkles, cherries. What are you putting on your banana split?
All right y'all, this is very creamy, very dreamy, very delicious

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