Three layer banana cream pie: dulce de leche (Alton Brown’s recipe), sliced ripe bananas, cream cheese filling. Mostly adapted from this recipe from Food Network.

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Having no idea what dulce de leche was before this, I was surprised to find out it can be made with just sugar, milk and heat. Taking Mr. Brown’s advice, I also included vanilla and baking soda (which I assume attributed to its success). A splash of top shelf bourbon was added to give the DDL a little more depth. Chilled overnight along with your standard graham cracker pie crust (butter, sugar, graham).

Cream cheese filling followed Ms. Valladolid’s recipe with the addition of a little Kahlua, for color and fun. I could (and did) eat that stuff straight.

Between the forced straining of DDL and the lack of electric mixer or food processor, my forearm is sore.