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
many many years so I'm going to give it a go because it sounds delicious okay this is a no-bake
icebox dessert okay no stove and oven going on here today if you're ready let's go ahead
and have some fun let's build this one up first thing we're going to do is make our
gram cracker crust that will fit in the bottom of our baking dish now I'm just going to
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
So I'm going to put three packets of these gram crackers in here
Now this is a 14 ounce box. You move about two and a half cups of crushed graham crackers
All right. Let get these going and then I'll put that last packet in there
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
Mmm, bran crackers smell good, huh
So we're using three quarters cup of melted butter, which is a stick and a half
I'm going to get my fork here. We're going to blend this until all the crissue
are coated with the butter. So I'm just kind of forming it here right, making sure
that it's going to form a nice crust, which it is right there. Okay, let's go
ahead and bring our 9 by 13 baking dish over. Okay, now what I like to do is
just lightly spray the bottom of my dish. And then I'm going to pour my
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
You do not need to go up on the sides with this. Just make it sure it's nice and formed, solid
Okay, now the reason why I sprayed my baking dish before I put the mixture in was we're going
to put this in the refrigerator and it's going to chill for about 30 minutes to solidify
Now the butter in that gram cracker crust will solidify and help it make a solid crust
Now when you spray the bottom of your dish, this does not solidify in the refrigerator, okay
So it'll make it easy to be able to cut out pieces of our cake here
Alright, so that's what's going to happen. in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to chill to help lock this crust in
and then we're gonna come back and start filling this up. So our Graham Cracker
crust is almost ready to come out of the refrigerator. Now in a medium bowl I
have eight ounces of cream cheese that I've softened and to that I added a
quarter cup of softened butter. And what I'm gonna do is take a hand mixer here
I'm gonna blend this together for about five minutes until it's nice and creamy
Okay, after the two minutes
Okay, after the two-minute mark, we're going to start incorporating three cups of powdered sugar
and I'm going to do it one cup at a time. All right, just scrape down the sides
so we can incorporate everything. Right, lucky today I have two people and two beaters
Okay, look at how creamy this is. Okay, let's go ahead now and bring out
Our graham cracker crust over. Now this had chilled in the refrigerator for 30 minutes
Or if you don't have that much time, you can stick that in your freezer for about 10 minutes
to solidify your crust. Oh, that looks really good. Nice and firm
What I'm going to do is take our mixture here and we're just going to put dollops all the
way around. Now make sure you do dollops. It's easy to spread that way
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
I have my daughter, Rihanna, and my husband, Thomas. And they're going to have to fight over the bowl, I guess
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
So now what we're going to do is just smooth this out evenly over the crust
Okay, I got this evenly spread in here. Okay, I'm going to bring four bananas over here
bring my cake back over here let's see I can see that there we go I'm going to
slice the bananas and we're gonna put those all over the topping right here now
there was a trick to peeling bananas if you start at the bottom and you peel it
all the string comes with it and then you have no strings left if you peel it from
the top down you always have those little strings nice little tip huh all right we're
going to use my yellow knife here since we're doing bananas. All right and we're just
going to layer them. So I may be doing three bananas, we'll see. So I think it
depends on the size of your bananas and how thick you cut your bananas as to how
many you're going to need three or four. Mine were pretty big so I did three
bananas for this right here. Okay I have a 20 ounce can of pineapple. Now this is
crushed pineapple. What you want to do before you add this is make sure you drain it well
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
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
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
can put that on there. Just make sure it's all drained very well. Okay once you get
this drained we're going to put it on top of our bananas nice and evenly
And hopefully I told you the size of it. It is the 20 ounces. Yeah we're still
building up. Okay that's looking really good. Go. Okay now we're going to top our
banana pineapple mixture with a whipped topping now you can either use cool whip
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
some heavy whipping cream and I'm gonna make my own kind of cool whip version
here so I've got 12 ounces of a heavy whipping cream I'm just gonna put into a
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
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
You don't want to overmix because you don't want to curdle it, but this is totally perfect right here
Now, I didn't add too much powdered sugar because this dessert is sweet enough
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
we're going to do the same thing with the cool whip that we did with the cream cheese mixture
we're going to dollop it on here because it'll make it really easy to spread out now the
cool whip is really easy to spread so I'm just going to use my spatula here and just
spread it over the pineapple all right we're going to go ahead now and start garnishing our
cake with delicious toppings that we like on a banana split cherries so these are
maraschino cherries out of a jar I just dried them and and then if they have stems on them, take them off
and then I just kind of halved them and quartered some of them, depending on how big they were
So I'm going to place these all over my cake here. Okay, I chopped up some beacons
I'm going to add that to the top of the cherries here. Of course, we like chocolate syrup on ours
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
Okay, this looks like a party. Okay, there's one final step
We have to put this in the refrigerator to chill and set up for four hours or overnight
Now, if you know at my house, four hours is going to be the tops for this
Got that right. All right, guys, I'll be back and show you
What's on the inside? Okay, look at my icebox no bake banana split cake
Doesn't that look like a party? Look at the different layers
Oh, who wants this bite right here? Mmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mmm
You know, the Graham Cracker crust down there tastes like an ice cream cone
We've got the bananas, the cool whip, the chocolate syrup, there's cream cheese in there
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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